George Herbert Quotes

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

I made bad decisions. I'm not denying that I made bad decisions.

Wine cheers God and man.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Leaders and statesmen are always making mistakes and misjudgments.

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

The exclusion of wine from the list of refreshments has turned out exceedingly well. There is a great deal of dissipation here [in Washington DC] At the reception of the British Minister, and that of the Mexican Minister, disgraceful things were done by young men, made reckless by too much wine. Hence the necessity of our course is obvious, and is commended in unexpected quarters. Many of the foreign gentlemen speak of it with approval. We shall stick to it.

Is that wise, darling? Remember you have to reign all afternoon

Physical fitness is a farce without self-control, judgment, and discretion, which are the three qualities of mind first to be dulled by and made incompetent by the use of alcohol

If someone tells you he is going to make ‘a realistic decision’, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

I made some really bad decisions, and I turned a lot of work down and kind of got lost in life.

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

Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.

I've made stupid investments. I've made stupid decisions as an employee. I've made foolish decisions as a manager. I've gotten fired. I've lost businesses. I went through all of those things.

I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

I used to always judge other people's mistakes in the mountains. I think a bit differently now. Everybody's gotten away with a mistake or poor decision out there at one point or another, but sometimes it catches up to you, or sometimes you're just plain unlucky.

You see a lot of guys in the NBA make dumb mistakes.

I have done some pretty dumb things. I am not going to lie. I see the things I have done. And I have done some dumb things.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.