“ The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. ”
- Diogenes- Copy
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“ The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. ”
- Cesar Chavez- Copy
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“ When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. ”
- Abigail Van Buren- Copy
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“ The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
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“ The reason it's called Grape Nuts is that it contains dextrose, which is also sometimes called grape sugar, and also because Grape Nuts is catchier, in terms of marketing, than A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel, which is what it tastes like. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
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“ The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage. ”
- Samuel Eliot Morison- Copy
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“ There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
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“ Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess. ”
- Cathleen McGuigan- Copy
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