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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.


Henry Ward Beecher

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DEYTH BANGER The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Books are the windows through
which the soul looks out.
HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
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HENRY WARD BEECHER The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beech...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER When the average wine bottle on a list costs more than your dinner, when you have to decide between ...
LANCE CUTLER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES If my heart was a bottle, your kiss would be the cork that seals in our love.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delic...
CRAIG FERGUSON A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
CLIFTON FADIMAN BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
D. L. HUGHLEY A small cooling unit with inexpensive racking costs about $1,500 for a 6-foot by 6-foot, 500-bottle ...
CRAIG ALLEN For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we h...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bitterswee...
ELLEN HOPKINS How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinio...
TYSON FURY Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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MALCOLM THOMPSON A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, the...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.
PABLO NERUDA The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going ...
GEORGE LOPEZ I go to a lot of wine dinners and people are surprised that our wine sells for $25. They're used to ...
DAVE PHILLIPS There's good music, and it's a great day to hang out and drink a bottle of wine. This truly is a spe...
GEORGIE BREMNER When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray wha...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Wow, I thought you were supposed to be this mean fighter that goes out there and knocks people out a...
BRIAN VILLORIA 'Wow, I thought you were supposed to be this mean fighter that goes out there and knocks people out ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We toured the winery. That was really interesting, and I think almost all of the ladies bought a bot...
LIBBY JOHNSON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes ...
MARIANNE MOORE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
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She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
JOAN COLLINS If you don 't have explanation of what's happening around the world... I think somebody else knows p...
DEYTH BANGER In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY I had about half a bottle of red wine and it kind of took the edge off me,
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DARK JAR TIN ZOO She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
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C. JOYBELL C. We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absenc...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition.
JOHN WAGSTAFF She was inspired by a major hot flash and a bottle of wine.
KATHI GLIST The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
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JOAN COLLINS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
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HENRY WARD BEECHER The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden withou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
HENRY WARD BEECHER In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things...
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