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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!


Hafez

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and the cup-bearer pours.
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but the cup-bearer knows:...
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CONSTANCE FRIDAY At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.
JANE SEYMOUR You are my winter suddenness—a glass of red wine spilt across a white tablecloth
JOHN GEDDES I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
WENDY DAVIS I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of...
DEIRDRE O'KANE Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
ROBERT FRIPP Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
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ROBERT FRIPP My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don...
PAUL HENDERSON At the third cup, wine drinks the man
HOKEKYO SHO Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a gl...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN Just make sure they have a glass of wine first.
LARRY BORTNIKER A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Selling your body for money is like drinking beer out of a wine glass,everythings wrong with it.
KIMBERLY SHILENJE The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what ha...
P.G. WODEHOUSE At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine i...
MARY BERRY But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
KATE FLEETWOOD We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
EDUARDO GALEANO We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
EDUARDO GALEANO No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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OSCAR WILDE Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simpl...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glas...
DAVE GAHAN The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discove...
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JOHN GAY A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
THOMAS AQUINAS A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
KATHY MATTEA I'm a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux '82 with a meal or to unwind.
SUZI QUATRO Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.
DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.
RENEE AHDIEH She loved three things — a joke, a
glass of wine, and a handsome man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I'm a green tea addict, though the occasional glass of red wine is nice, too.
SHILPA SHETTY The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
G.K. CHESTERTON A glass of beer shortens your life by one minute, a glass of wine by two minutes, and a day of work ...
ANONYMOUS I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volume...
KHALED HOSSEINI Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look ...
W.B. YEATS I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
SALLY QUINN There's nothing better than a glass of wine, a girlfriend, and a long talk.
KAREN FAIRCHILD Before you came,
things were as they should be:
the sky was the dead-end of sight,
th...
FAIZ AHMAD FAIZ Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Ju...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE Funny, cute and kissable
I've found a girl that makes me lose control
Every night's like t...
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STARGAZER Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
THOMAS CAMPBELL Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup,...
BEN JONSON Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'...
BEN JONSON I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my th...
KALEY CUOCO Love is meant to be sipped, rather than chugged, like a glass of wine you drink strait from the bott...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO We changed that to one cup of wine. Drinking four cups was a little too much for us.
MIKE SMITH A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.
NATHAN LANE Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
THOMAS CAMPBELL Then this immensive cup
Of aromatic wine,
Catullus, I quaff up
To that terse muse of thine.
ROBERT HERRICK They get their $5 (worth) the minute they walk in the door and have a glass of wine and taste the ch...
ARTHUR JACOBUS Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I&...
BEN JONSON We were really afraid of fires. These old houses are so close together that if one was set afire, th...
GREGG HARRIS Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…
JANVIER CHOUTEU-CHANDO My mother is teaching me Indian recipes. I'll go to the market, get everything fresh, have a gla...
SENDHIL RAMAMURTHY We used a tailored cup set into a satin band. That gives the illusion that the cup is smaller.
NORAH ALBERTO Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cu...
BENJAMIN JOHNSON Shelter in winter that day --a storm coming, but in the leeof an island in a cover with friends --oh...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.
ZOE MCLELLAN The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that hold...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing not...
ERIN DANIELS The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
AUGUSTUS HARE My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.
DOROTHY DAY I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.
DIANE KEATON A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exi...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
BERNARD CORNWELL I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and cover...
C. JOYBELL C. Let it shine, the light in you.
Oh, and that's delighting me!
Various colors shining thr...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, a...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC My little cup brims with tiddles.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
SOPHOCLES No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead b...
THICH NHAT HANH With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a...
LESLEY MANVILLE On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk...
IMAN With the Stanley Cup win, this is the greatest moment of my life.
PAUL DIPIETRO I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.
PABLO NERUDA We laugh really hard when we go out. We'll have a glass of wine, or we'll go to a club and dance. I'...
MARY J. BLIGE Earth's crammed with Heaven. And every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees, takes off h...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Oh, leave the gay and festive scenes, The halls of dazzling light.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which bac...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I'm really big on day dates. If you go for a stroll, have a picnic or lunch with a glass of wine...
MEGHAN MARKLE When you kiss me,
your lips upon mine,
your kisses taste so sweet,
just like a glass ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS "I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,His burning candle consumed me - the moth;His wine o...
ALLAMA IQBAL It’s nothing. It’s fine.” Ryan spins back around, walks the three steps to the marble counter ...
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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE So he did this weaving for his mother and he put stained glass in it, flat glass and loved the way t...
JOANNA SIKES The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, a...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

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