Quotes with wine-glass

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  • Michael Ondaatje In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
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    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Walt Whitman In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Raymond Chandler It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Virginia Woolf Language is wine upon the lips.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Plautus Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Lord George Byron Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Buddha Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • William Adams Brown Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
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  • A. Cornelius Celsus Live in rooms full of light; Avoid heavy food; Be moderate in the drinking of wine; Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics; Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water; Change surroundings and take long journeys; Strictly avoid frightening ideas; Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements; Listen to music.
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  • John Milton Lords are lordliest in their wine.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • James Allen Mind is the Master - power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills - He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mark Twain My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brigham Young Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Bette Davis Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Camille Paglia Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • William Shakespeare O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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