'Toasts & Quotes'

Toasts & Quotes: Temperance and Chastity

“Temperance, like Chastity, is its own punishment”

Cypher Winery - http://www.cypherwinery.com/

Toasts & Quotes: Celebration

Re-live it as often as you like.  It is free and it never wears out.  It’s the memory we’re making today, right now.

~ Unknown

Toasts & Quotes: Divorce, Break-Up

“Never get jealous when you see your Ex with someone else.  Just remember, your parents always taught you to share your toys with the less fortunate!”

~ Unknown

Toasts & Quotes: Uniforms for Congress

 

“I think Congress should be required to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers.  

That way we could tell which corporations are sponsoring them.”

~ Quote attributed to Tim “Joliet” Owens

~ (artist unknown)

Toasts & Quotes: Albert Einstein

“Not everything that can be counted counts.

And not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein, Genius.  1879 – 1955.

Toasts & Quotes: Hemingway on Wine

“This wine is too good for toast-making, my dear.

You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that.

You lose the taste.”

~ Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961), American author, journalist and bon vivant.

Toasts & Quotes: André Tchelistcheff on Pinot Noir

“God made Cabernet.

The Devil made Pinot Noir”

~ André Tchelistcheff (1901-1994), early pioneer, innovator and evangelist for California wine, on the challenges inherent in making Pinot Noir.  We all owe a debt of gratitude to André, a tireless mentor to young talent, many of whom are now pillars of our contemporary wine industry.  Were it not for André, and a handful of others, California wines would have wallowed in the shadows of Prohibition for decades longer than they did!

Toast & Quotes: Somerset Maugham on Excess

“Excess on occasion is exhilerating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”

~ Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965), popular English playwright, novelist and short story author.

Quote contributed by Patrick Finerty, CA

Toasts & Quotes: Drinking Wine All Day

“You can’t drink wine all day… if you don’t start first thing in the morning.”

~ Dan Burke,
Founder Gemelli Wine & Spirits

Toasts & Quotes: Thomas Aquinas on Wine and Sorrow

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian Dominican Priest, 1225 – 1274, whose image shown here is one I chose as it appears that he is holding a glass of wine!
Quote Submitted by Dr. Debra Maddox, FL



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