Quotes 81 till 100 of 124.
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.
A Gate at the Stairs (2009) 204 -
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
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This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
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This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Pensees (1669) -
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
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