Friday Cheers

Wine tastes better when you're overlooking the ocean.  Fact.

“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”

― Ernest Hemingway   

 
“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,

the wild wine

that sets the wisest man to sing

at the top of his lungs,

laugh like a fool – it drives the

man to dancing... it even

tempts him to blurt out stories

better never told.”

― Homer, The Odyssey

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Photo Borrowed From Here:  http://winecellars-uncorked.com/



For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

Thomas Becon (1512–1567)

Catechism, 375

Here's to the corkscrew -

a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit,

the treasury of laughter,

the front door of fellowship,

and the gate of pleasant folly.

W.E.P. French

(From the wine list of Commander's Palace in New Orleans, LA courtesy of John McDonald, Dallas, TX)

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*Paula

 

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


My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

-Jonathan Swift



*If you would like to know more about "Paula",  click here and here for two stories that Chesapeake Bay Woman has written about her.  She's becoming quite the celebrity in these parts;) 

Friday Cheers

Written on the glass:  It's 5:00 Beach Time


“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”


― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol. II

    “If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”

― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

Last weekend I had the pleasure of spending time with my BFF Chesapeake Bay Woman. 

I'm looking forward to more 

smack girl talk with her tomorrow. 

A good friend is better than a bottle of wine. 

If you have both, you are truly blessed! 

Friday Cheers

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather

and a little music played out of doors

by somebody I do not know.”

― John Keats

 

 

 

“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”

― Rumi

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“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”

― Martin Luther

“What wine goes with Captain Crunch?”

― George Carlin

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“I love everything that is old;

old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

― Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

“There are days when solitude is a heady wine

that intoxicates you with freedom,

others when it is a bitter tonic,

and still others when it is a poison that makes you

beat your head against the wall.”

― Colette, Oeuvres complètes en seize volumes