Pastoral Resources

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.