Port Wine Houses

Famous quotes containing the words port, wine and/or houses:

    “How happy is the sailor’s life,
    From coast to coast to roam;
    In every port he finds a wife,
    In every land a home.”
    —Isaac Bickerstaffe (c. 1735–1812)

    “Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.”
    —P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston (1899–1954)

    “A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)