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"Non ut edam vivo, sed vivam edo. I do not live to eat, but eat to live." - Quintilianus, Instituitio oratoria
"The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars." - Benjamin Franklin
"Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master" - Leonardo da Vinci
"Grapes are the most noble and challenging of fruits."- Malcolm Dunn, Head Gardener to the 7th Viscount Powerscourt, c 1867, Quotes in 'Phylloxera' by Christy Campbell
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." - unknown
"Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Othello, II. iii. (315)
“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.” – Sophia Loren
"I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on." - Renoir
"Laughter is brightest, in the place where the food is." - Irish proverb
"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities"- 1 Timothy, 5:23
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw
"I like to drink wine more than I used to." - Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches." - Andy Warhol
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." - Chinese proverb
"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world." Ernest Hemingway.
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf
James Bond has just been surprised by the double agent, Grant. "Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something." - From Russia with Love (1963)
"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast." - John Gunther
“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.” –Dolly Parton
"After-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine." - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)The Miller's Daughter, 31
"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." - English Proverb
“Wine (also beer) is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” –Ben Franklin
Description of a corkscrew:...the wine lover's best friend and the rarest of tools." - Anonymous
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