Quotations on Wine

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine, said Joan Collins.

West Street vineyard in Coggeshall has a restaurant decorated with quotations about wine - even in the elegant ladies toilet.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading, said Henry Youngman.

Photos by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

English Wine Barn, West Street

Coggeshall, Essex CO6 INS

tel: 01376 563303

www.weststreetvineyard.co.uk

on Facebook and Twitter @weststreetwine

See previous post about lovely buildings to look at in Coggeshall.

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Quotations on death or funerals: Dead funny

Diary of Anne Frank. 

I want to go on living even after my death.
Anne Frank.

Death is not an event in life; it is the end of life.
Wittgenstein.

Death is death. 
Marlene Dietrich.

Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six. 

(American favourite saying about the right to carry concealed weapons.)

Shoot first, ask questions later. 

Most people are more afraid of giving a speech than dying. 

(A favourite saying to encourage confidence at Toastmasters International speakers' clubs.)

Most Americans are more afraid of giving a speech than dying. So they would rather be in the coffin than giving the funeral speech. 

(American comedian. Seinfeld? I've forgotten who - I'll look this up and come back with the answer.)

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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day

Angela Lansbury B A Hons
Author of
Quick Quotations. (Lulu.com)
Who Said What When. (Lulu.com)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.

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Quotations for a funeral: sad, serious, soulful

Do not mourn for me, better you should laugh and forget, than be sad.
Christina Rossetti.
This quotation is also used in advertisements for bereavement counselling services, paid for or free.

I am not gone, only sleeping in the next room.

Sadness is the price we pay for love.

To the world they were one person, but to one person they were the world.

Stonemasons and funeral directors who supply thank you cards for condolences have lots of quotations you can choose to put on thank you cards, mostly rhyming poems.

These poems can also be used in funeral notices in newspaper and on gravestones.

Religious ceremonies can use quotations from the holy books, such as the bible, Old Testament, New Testament, and from other religions.

Those organising Humanist and secular funerals can choose poems of a spiritual or optimistic nature, about the memory of love, of nature, the wheel of life and life going on.

A funeral official can offer you a choice of poems.

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https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/help-resources/arranging-a-funeral/planning-the-service/funeral-poems/when-i-m-gone#_=_

About The Author
Angela Lansbury B A Hons
Author of:
Quick Quotations (Lulu.com)
Who Said What When (Lulu.com)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts (Ward Lock/Cassell)

Quotations on Anzac Day and War memorials

The short quotation we recall easily is 'for your tomorrow they gave their today'.

But even more relevant to Gallipoli is the quotation from the speech given there by the Turkish leader, Kemal Ataturk, a masterpiece of the rhetoric of reconciliation. "Having lost their lives in this land, they have become our sons as well." The words of the founder of the republic of Turkey are on monuments in Turkey and Australia.

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Angela Lansbury B A Hons
Author of:
Quick Quotations
Who Said What When
Wedding Speeches and Toasts

See my books on quotes

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Who said What, When?

Life's a Jest and All things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it.

I looked up that quotation and found it was by John Gay. I had numerous quotations in my book Quick Quotations, by people I did not know.

Who were they? If their names sounded English, were they English or American? If their names sounded Spanish, were they Spanish or South American? 

When did they live?

John Gay wrote the Beggar's Opera. His words are recorded in Westminster Abbey, Poets' Corner.

I started researching the authors of quotations, had to use card index cards to keep track, and ended up with a second book, Who Said What When.

Angela Lansbury, author of
Quick Quotations
Who Said What When

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Collecting Quotations

I love quotations. I have a huge collection of books of quotations by others, such as

Bartletts Quotations
Humorous Quotations
Jewish Quotations
Oxford Quotations
Theatre Quotations
Shopping Quotations

I photograph quotations all over the world, on war memorials, pub and restaurant walls, shopping malls, theatres, wine labels.

When I started giving speeches regularly at Toastmasters International club meetings, I needed short quotations to start speeches. I could not remember long quotations. So I looked for short quotations. I ended up compiling them into a paperback book which I printed under the title Quick Quotations. You can buy it as a paperback book and it will shortly be available as an e-book.

You may be wondering, what is Angela's favourite quotation?

My favourite quotation is from Disraeli: When I want to read a book, I write one.

Angela Lansbury B A Hons, author and speaker
Author of
Quick Quotations
Who Said What When
Wedding Speeches and Toasts