German Wines Quotes & Sayings

What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,
For good things, oft, are not so near;
A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,
Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent — John Steinbeck

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger. — Dennis Miller

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J.B. Priestley

The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you. — Shakti Gawain

Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good — Sunday Adelaja

That's bloody obvious. A schoolboy with a palsied brain could have worked that one out. — Bernard Cornwell

We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even ... Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God. — Victor J. Stenger

Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy. — Robin Hobb

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. — Ernie Isley

A true German can't stand the French,
Yet willingly he drinks their wines. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No," I said and smiled. "I just happen to like the taste of that particular grape." "Oh?" "Yeah. I think chardonnays are too oaky and heavy and German wines are too sweet. But if my roommate and I are sharing a bottle of something, it's usually on sale — Dorothea Benton Frank

We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible. — Jim Cantalupo

That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights. — Herman Melville

All lives are difficult; what makes some of them fulfilled as well is the manner in which pains have been met. Every pain is an indistinct signal that something is wrong, which may engender either a good or bad result depending on the sagacity and strength of mind of the sufferer. Anxiety may precipitate panic, or an accurate analysis of what is amiss. A sense of injustice may lead to murder, or to a ground-breaking work of economic theory. Envy may lead to bitterness, or to a decision to compete with a rival and the production of a masterpiece. As — Alain De Botton