Katie McElroy > Katie's Quotes

“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
― Patricia Polacco

“Wine is bottled poetry.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!”
― Dom Perignon

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. ”
― Plautus

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
― Martin Luther

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“A book of verses underneath the bough
A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness
And wilderness is paradise now.”
― Omar Khayyám, Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
― Mark Twain

“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
― Sarah Vowell