Vineyards Quotations

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

I am falser than vows made in wine.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse