Clarifications Of Wine Quotes & Sayings

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin. — Alec Douglas-Home

Nae king! Nae quin! We will nae be fooled agin! — Terry Pratchett

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. — Ogden Nash

Admittedly, his dinners consisted only of two or three courses, and were prepared by an ex-soldier, but the champagne flowed like water. — Alexander Pushkin

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca

In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise. — Seth

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. — Wilfred Owen

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. — Pauline Marois

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records. — Brian Eno

Every good and perfect gift comes from God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody. — Martial

Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. — Victor Hugo