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"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken." »Homer
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." »Mao Tse-tung
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"Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." »Mao Tse Tung
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"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air." »Simms
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"A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party." »Mao Zedong
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"He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." »Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
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"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved." »Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"wine is bottled poetry." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark." »Ovid
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"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good." »Cuban Proverb
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"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." »Robert Fripp
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"wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion." »Ovid
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"Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." »Pope John XXIII
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"It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine." »Heraclitus
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"Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart." »Aeschylus
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"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"Religions change; beer and wine remain." »Hervey Allen
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"They say “Wine is Satan's falcon,”; apparently he uses it in hunting men!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all." »Alcaeus
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"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever." »Aristophanes
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"What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?" »Cyril Connolly
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"If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it." »Chinese Proverb
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"The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault." »Paul S. Winalski
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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine." »Benjamin Johnson
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"There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain." »Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800
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"Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine." »Polish Proverb
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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine." »Ben Johnson
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"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it." »Frank Muir
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