1. “To take wine into your mouth is to savour a droplet of the river of human history.”
- Clifton Fadiman, N. Y. Times, 8 Mar ‘87 – No one is quite sure when the first wine was brewed, and it could be as early as 5000BC. A much loved and everlasting drink.
2. “A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.”
- Clifton Fadiman, N. Y. Times, 8 Mar ‘87 – Wine is a convivial drink, and makes the heart fill with generosity.
3. “The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.”
- Joseph Haydn – researching the love of wine in the 4th Century, uncovered something that is still perhaps, true today!
4. “Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.”
- William Shakespeare “Othello” Act II, Sc. 3, line 293 – Often we find out secrets when the tongue is loosened with wine.
5. “In wine there is truth.”
- Pliny The Elder [A.D.23-79] “Natural History,” Book XIV, Sect. 141 – One of the first antrhropologists, documented how wine was much loved among the people.
6. “Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome.”
- Sir Walter Scott “Perveril of the Peak,” [1822] Chap. 4 – Famous for his atmospheric books, he was fond of drinking wine, any place, anytime.
7. “On one occasion someone put a very little wine into a glass, and said that it was sixteen years old. ‘It is very small for its age,’ said Gnathaena.”
- Athenaeus [c. A.D.200] “The Deipnosophists,” XIII, 47 – One of the earliest written down accounts of life in the 2nd century, refers to the admiration of wine and that wine is better with maturity.
8. “I drank at every vine. The last was like the first. I came upon no wine, so wonderful as thirst.”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay, ‘Feast,’ “The Harp-Weaver” (1923) – alluding to alcoholism, perhaps, where the love of wine goes too far, as it did for Millay’s Harp Weaver character.
9. “When wines were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people.”
- George Saintsbury [1845-1913] “Notes on a Cellar Book” – People often reflect on how wine brings good company and good times.
10. “Wine is made to be drunk as women are made to be loved; profit by the freshness of youth or the splendour of maturity; do not await decrepitude.”
- Theophile Malvezin – comparing the fine taste of wine with how much variety there is to be had in loving another person.
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]]>” He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.” Unknown – Dogs inspire great affection from their owners, and show great devotion to their masters.
” To err is human, to forgive canine.” Unknown – Dogs never hold grudges.
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” Will Rogers – this American cowboy was very fond of his dog, and thought dog heaven was a better place than human heaven.
“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.” James Thurber – And So To Medve; This American author published this story in an anthology called Men, Women and Dogs, designed to heap praise on the canine species.
“If you pick up a starving Dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man…” Mark Twain – Dogs are always grateful for the affection you give them.
“Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.” Gene Hill – The Dog Man; Dogs are always generous with their love, and look happy to be with you when they wag their tails.
“Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.” Alexander Pope – A dog will not betray you, unlike some people.
“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.” Sigmund Freud – The master of psychology tells us you always know where you stand with a dog, unlike people.
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–
it was peace.”
Milan Kundera – Owners of dogs find much pleasure in the simple fact that a dog makes you go outside and enjoy the fresh air and outdoor living.
“The poor dog, in life the the firmest friend; The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master’s own; Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,
Unhonour’d falls, unnoticed all his worth; Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth,
While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven; And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.”
Lord Byron – This was the gravestone inscription on the monument of his Newfoundland dog, whom he regarded as best friend and loyal, loving companion, during the course of his life.
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]]>12. Love is like a flower: Once you pick it, it slowly dies.
Author unknown – whether you should never get to close to love, or that it inevitably dies, is one of the mysteries of this quote’s meaning.
13. Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Author unknown – creating a great symphony, Mozart said, comes from the heart, and like his music, this quote says that love is a heart occupation.
14. Love is love’s reward.
John Dryden – you will always get something back from love.
15. Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart,
But somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
Kay Knudsen – the presence of your love in your life, makes you feel good, constantly.
16. Love is not blind – it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
Rabbi Julins Gordon – they say that love is blind, yet, it seems it chooses to be so, which means it is not. I’m confused!
17. Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality; the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
José Ortega y Gasset – is love something fundamental to creation? This quotes asks us to consider if love is part of the fabric of the world.
18. Love is all you need
John Lennon and Paul MacCartney – from the song of the same name, the duo had this number 1 hit with The Beatles. The song told people how the most important thing in life was love, and not money.
19. Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.
Julie Marie – to fully receive the benefits of love, you must open your heart.
20. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration
D. H. Lawrence – do not pass up your chance at love, this English novelist seems to warn.
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]]>“Lust tastes like tequila, love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer, warms you up on the inside and sometimes makes you do stupid things. Tequila just makes you wasted. You get wasted on lust and warmed on love.”
(Jackson Rathbone) This country and western singer sums about everything up you can say about drinking tequila versus drinking whiskey, and the love of women!
“Always carry a large flagon of whisky in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.”
(W.C. Fields) Proving his love of manly things, Fields lets us know firmly, that whiskey is something to be drunk often, and willingly.
“Anybody who hates dogs and loves whiskey can’t be all bad.”
(W.C. Fields) The great comedian was fond of the witty comparison pun, and in this quote, whiskey comes off the better, of dogs! We are laughing.
“The light music of whiskey falling into a glass – an agreeable interlude.”
(James Joyce) If whiskey caused this writer to conceive Ulysses, we could perhaps explain the stream of consciousness from this great work of literature as whiskey induced? He was Irish, after all.
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.”
(Mark Twain) What is it about men who wrote great literature, and whiskey? There seems to be a loving relationship between the two?
“Champagne’s funny stuff. I’m used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne’s a heavy mist before my eyes.”
(Jimmy Stewart, The Philadelphia Story) A man’s drink, whiskey is loved by men, and preferred to lighter drinks like champers.
“Whiskey is liquid sunshine.”
(George Bernard Shaw) loved to drink whiskey and extol its virtues loudly in London bars.
“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martini’s”
( Humphrey Bogart’s last words) America has brewed some fine whiskey, since prohibition times, as it was easy to brew illegally. This great actor remembers the drink fondly on his death-bed.
“I just had 19 shots of whiskey, I think that’s a record.”
(Dylan Thomas’s last words.) Traditionally Irish, or Scottish, whiskey was the last loved beverage of choice for this famous Irish poet.
“There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whisky.”
(Scottish proverb) – If you ever visit Scotland and order a whiskey, order it neat, no ice etc, or else risk getting battered at the bar. The Scots are passionate about how whiskey should be drunk.
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]]>How people define love varies, and it is interesting to ask yourself how you would define it.
There are many good love quotes by famous people as well as many funny love quotes and sayings. Here is a selection of some of the best “Love is…” quotes, that we think get close to defining it!
1. Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo – delightful romantic novelists always hit the mark, defining love with images of beauty.
2. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu – a very physical description of love, and how it goes right though your body.
3. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire – philosopher’s like Voltaire thought love was similar to mental illness.
4. Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor – New York City socialite, famous for promoting the idea that you need to marry a rich man!
5. Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott – this author believes that love is a great equaliser, and calms the spirit.
6. Love is a passion which kindles honour into noble acts.
John Dryden – critics of love say it is irrational, while supporters say it makes you a better person.
7. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes.
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears.
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare-the great English bard wrote thousands of descriptions of love, as he found it mysterious and passionate, and strove to describe it, in all of its variety.
8. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides – in Greek Mythology, the Gods are motivated by two extremes, love or hate, and often express their connection of love with all that is good in humanity.
9. Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia – a fan of selfless love, Buscaglia says that you can’t force someone to love you.
10. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov – charming, and admired, this English actor, and gentleman, believed in staying with one person for life.
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]]>“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.” This successful girl always desired a loving man.
“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.” Marilyn always gave the impression she was a reluctant sex symbol, yet she loved the limelight.
“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.” Marilyn believed that men would never be faithful, as she was so beautiful, that many married men chased her, and she married one of them.
“Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.” She learned a tough lesson, that even a woman as beautiful as her could not hold on to a man who did not want her.
“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.” Marilyn believed that men who had affairs made excellent lovers, as the mistress was the special treat.
“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.” Considering she lived in the 40s and 50s, she was ahead of her time with sexual promiscuity and freedom being something she encouraged and supported for women.
“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.” Posing for Playboy launched her career as an international sex symbol, and this quote was in defiance of all who thought her slatternly. She loved her freedom and believed women should be adored.
“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.” Despite her ferocious sexuality she had a maternal, loving side to her.
“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.” Marilyn had the most famous cleavage in the world, and changed the face of women’s fashion overnight, with her boldness of dress.
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.” She graced the walls of soldier’s mess halls and camps around the world during WWII. She became the most popular pin up of all time, and was loved as an American icon and reminder of better times, for those at war.
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]]>A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi – Lombardi believed that a national sport was important to national pride and should be part of every place of study. That people needed release from the academic, and something to focus on to remember that they are part of a society.
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi – extolling the virtues of a good football player, and Lombardi worked with players before they were paid excessively, and desired the game above all other things – including the fame.
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard – It is easy to forget the value of games, and that football is a tough sport, with tough love attached.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower – The President of the USA believed that football was a game that had to be played with integrity, if one was to rise to be the leader of the team.
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck – the famous author compares the camaraderie of football fans with the fervour of an army.
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa – social commentator from the 60s, journalist Zappa had his finger on the cultural zeitgeist, and rightly identified national pride with love of football.
The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller – comedienne and famous for her witty puns, hits the nail on the head for the ladies, although, we are sure the ladies don’t mind watching men in those football oufits!
I think the best place to work in football is England.
Jose Mourinho – originally from Portugal, he used to manage Chelsea and made them a team to be reckoned with, and fell in love with the English football, or soccer to the rest of us.
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]]>“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” Laura Ingalls Wilder – we like this quote because it is always fun to be a child again, and getting special treatment from our parents and grandparents.
“May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!” Author Unknown – Christmas is a time when everyone is nice, in the shops, in the car, at work, everywhere it is a joy.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Charles Dickens – he wrote the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, who said this, as a promise, to be a lot nicer to his workforce, expressing the love he felt at Christmas throughout the coming year.
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas – funnily enough, many town squares have Christmas trees this tall or bigger, and we always love seeing the trees and lights go up!
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” Washington Irving – Christmas is also a time for showing love to the poorer people in society, and remembering how many blessings you have to offer others.
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” Peg Bracken – who doesn’t love the home-made gifts, chutneys, spiced wines, and berry spirit drinks. The thought that goes into these gifts shows love and care for others.
“Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.” Kate L. Bosher – we think that everyone likes Christmas, because it is a time of coming together, and talking and laughing, with others. It’s something we all need to look forward to.
“At Christmas, all roads lead home. “ Marjorie Holmes – Christmas makes us think of where we call home, and where to spend the day. Family is usually the first port of call. For those without family; lovely friends to visit.
“Instead of being a time of unusual behaviour, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.” Francis C. Farley – it is great that at this time of year, men can be a bit mushy, ah bless!
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]]>Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
Mark E. Smith releases some valuable information, cheese is not only tasty, but gives you great stamina for all those exams. Another reason to love cheese.
But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it’s rich.
Eva Herzigova proves to us that skinny, beautiful women love cheese too.
Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich… My mother’s is the best. I’ve tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it’s never the same.
Andy Roddick shows us how he became the world’s best tennis player. He loves ham and cheese sandwiches.
Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.
Clifton Paul Fadiman was an American author, famous for observing how interaction with society caused you to learn more about yourself. In this case, his love of cheese translated into something he would always remember.
For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.
Steve Albini tells us that rock stars really do love healthy food, and especially cheese.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle ruled France, but quipped that it was difficult for everyone to agree on things, as people were as rich in variety as the cheese the nation produced. The French, famous for their love of cheese, pride themselves on being individuals.
If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I’d give up chocolate in a heartbeat.
Amanda Peet plays the wife of John Cusack in 2012, the end of the world movie, and shares her wisdom on what she would take to a desert island. This girl loves cheese more than chocolate.
In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
Walter Wager who wrote Die Hard 2, shares his wisdom with us. First time travellers to France will remember their excitement at how readily, and cheaply, cheese and wine was available. And how they discovered they loved cheese.
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
Ellen DeGeneres sums up cheese and its role at Christmas, Thanksgiving and other special times. The love of cheese as a special treat.
Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.
Gina Barreca is one of the funniest women in America, but she is definite about one thing, or in this case, four things, including cheese as her top four favourite things that women love.
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]]>1. “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!” – On the death of Cathy, Heathcliff curses her to walk the earth, so that he can love her always, as he cannot imagine life without her.
2. “It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.” – Cathy speaks of how she brought love to Heathcliff’s world, by introducing him to her sweet nature.
3. “It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?” Catherine laments how she is married to Edgar, but still loves Heathcliff. She exclaims this truth on her deathbed, in front of her husband and Heathcliff.
4. He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.” Nelly laments how his Heathcliff’s heart has broken from his loss of Cathy, and her haunting of him.
5. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire” Cathy states that her love for Edgar Linton, her husband, is nothing compared to her love for Heathcliff, which is as wild as the moors.
6. “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem apart of it.” Cathy predicts that she feels so strongly for Heathcliff, that she would never be apart from him, after death. The intensity of their love burns bright.
7. “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath–a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind–not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” Cathy seeks Nelly’s advice whether to marry Linton. Nelly gives the advice to go ahead and marry Linton, which we identify with, as she advises Cathy to marry someone respectable, and not follow her passionate heart.
8. “He would have recoiled still more had he been aware that her attachment rose unsolicited, and was bestowed where it awakened no reciprocation of sentiment; for the minute he discovered its existence, he laid the blame on Heathcliff’s deliberate designing. ” Heathcliff seduces Edgar Linton’s sister, Isabella, as revenge on Cathy for marrying someone else. All onlookers regard their obsession with each other as supernatural, and not healthy for either of them.
9. “He is more me than I am myself” Cathy spoke often of how in tune with each other her and Heathcliff were, yet she married another.
10. “You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.” Heathcliff sums up his outrage to Cathy, as he points out, that she chose to marry Linton and part them, and this is a warning to any woman marrying a man for anything other than true love. This was very controversial in Victorian times, when women were married off like cattle for chattels!
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