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Wine and grapes
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? (Cyril Connolly)
Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. (Oswald Chambers)
The older the grapes, sweeter the wine. (Janis Joplin)
It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. (Abigail Van Buren)
Your wine must return to the earth, whence the grape came. (Anthony Burgess)
A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside, “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.” (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. (Jeanette Winterson)
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush’d the sweet poison of misused wine. (John Milton)
People and grapes
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become. (Henri Nouwen)
People aren’t grapes – you can’t weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it’s easier than dealing with people as individuals. (Rita Mae Brown)
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. (Marcus Aurelius)
People would like to keep everything: roses and snow; they would like May flowers to curl around the ripe bunches of grapes ! (Alexander Herzen)
Grapes, wine and the mood of the Gascons are excellent antidotes against melancholy. (Montesquieu)
Guests are like grapes, they come and go in bunches. (Régis Tremblay)
But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance:
They howl and writhe in shoals of torment, in fierce flames consuming,
In chains of iron and in dungeons circled with ceaseless fires,
In pits and dens and shades of death, in shapes of torment and woe. (William Blake)
Fox and grapes
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour. (Aesop)
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach. (Marguerite de Navarre)
A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour. (Dorothy Parker)
Even what we give up, we must give up with free choice, not like the fox gives up the grapes. (Gottfried Keller)
O, will you eat
No grapes, my royal fox? Yes, but you will
My noble grapes, an if my royal fox
Could reach them. I have seen a medicine
That’s able to breathe life into a stone,
Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary
With sprightly fire and motion, whose simple touch
Is powerful to araise King Pippen, nay,
To give great Charlemagne a pen in ’s hand
And write to her a love line. (William Shakespeare)
Winemaker and grapes
So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye. (Pat Paulsen)
Wine is a novel that the winemaker writes with the grapes. (Thomas Häntsch)
A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes. (Michel Rolland)
Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin. (Laura Anne Gilman)
I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage. (Robert M. Parker, Jr.)
You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don’t have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area. (Maynard James Keenan)
Food and grapes
You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one. (Jacques Roumain)
Always eat grapes downwards – that is, always eat the best grape first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. (Samuel Butler)
I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly. (Fiorello H. La Guardia)
I’ve been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes. (Mike Ditka)
White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing. (Fran Lebowitz)
When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink – boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts. (Taylor Swift)
Gardening and grapes
You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity. (Drew Bledsoe)
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn’t grow in rich soil but in stony land… (Isabel Allende)
Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival. (Billy Cannon)
The best locations are generally on the hillsides, along our larger rivers, water-courses, and lakes, sloping to the East, South, and Southwest, as they are generally more exempt from late spring frosts and early frosts in fall. The location should be sheltered from the cold winds from the north and northwest, but fully exposed to the prevailing winds in summer from the south and southwest. (George Husmann)
Women and grapes
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The woman’s breasts are more fertile than the vine, more full of delight than ripe grapes, more intoxicating with love than the most delicate and fragrant wine. (Éliphas Lévi)
I look like the wrath of grapes. (Jane Ace)
The night, maddeningly lovely, with bloom of grapes on it in starshine, and the breath of grass and honey coming from it, he could not enjoy, while she who was to him the life of beauty, its embodiment and essence, was cut off from him, utterly cut off now, he felt, by honourable decency. (John Galsworthy)
Fruits and grapes
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. (Paracelsus)
Apples, grapes… any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day. (Kristin Chenoweth)
My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. ‘Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you’re stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem – just move on to the next. ‘Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.’ (Demetri Martin)
The Italian grapes, nectarines, peaches, and pears, I got yesterday, excellent. (John William Polidori)
Attitude to grapes
Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here. (Jeff Cox)
Don’t long for the unripe grape. (Horace)
I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions. (David O. Selznick)
Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes. (Woody Allen)
Alcohol and grapes
Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead! (Recep Tayyip Erdogan)
I will drink milk when the cows are grazing grapes. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)
The culture of the hop … so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets. (Henry David Thoreau)
A hangover is the wrath of grapes. (Dorothy Parker)
Religion and grapes
A religion without the supernatural, that makes me think of an advertisement that I read these years in the major newspapers: wine without grapes. (Edmond and Jules de Goncourt)
One grape from God fills all the jars with wine. (Johann Georg Hamann)
We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. (Benjamin Franklin)
Harvest and grapes
All cry `To harvest,’ crush the grape. (Sidney Lanier)
These bunches of grapes that we still find after the harvest and which have escaped the diligence of the picker. (Jean-Baptiste Massillon)
So she walked up, already enjoying the autumn and the festive day when the area rejoiced in harvesting and kicking grapes and gathering the must in the barrels, fireworks of the evening shining and popping from all places and ends. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Soul and grapes
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. (Horace)
The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed. (Roger Housden)
It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies. (Mary Abigail Dodge)
Vine and grapes
A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. (Anacharsis)
The young vine produces more grapes, but the old one produces better wine. (Francis Bacon)
The older the vine the more luscious the grapes, and the perfume is most exquisite. (Elizabeth W. Allston)
Nature and grapes
Everything is alive there; hills, forests,
Amber and yacht of grapes ,
Sheltering beauty of the valleys,
And coolness of streams and poplars… (Alexander Pushkin)
Down through the golden leaves the sun was pouring his splendors,
Gleaming on purple grapes, that, from branches above them suspended,
Mingled their odorous breath with the balm of the pine and the fir-tree,
Wild and sweet as the clusters that grew in the valley of Eshcol. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Age and grapes
As you get older, you learn to realize that you can’t demand everything from a person and that you have to be satisfied when a vine bears grapes. In younger years people also ask for strawberries and raspberries. (Theodor Fontane)
Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. (Barbara Johnson)
Paradise and grapes
Speaking of destiny, what would have been the destiny of the human race if, instead of eating an apple, Adam and Eve had eaten grapes? (Antoine-Auguste Preault)
Paradise Giving His Happiness for an Apple O Adam, what lust! I should have lived instead of you, so paradise would still be today. – But what if the grape had been the test fruit? How come, my friend? – Well, I think – Paradise would no longer be either. (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
Grapes features
Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man. (George Ellwanger)
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh. (Marge Piercy)
USA and grapes
From the very first settlement of America, the vine seems to have attracted the attention of the colonists, and it is said that as early as 1564, wine was made from the native grape in Florida. (George Husmann)
The three finest native American grapes, the Catawba, the Isabella, and the Scuppernong, are all indigenous to the soil of North Carolina. (Sallie Southall Cotten)
Happiness and grapes
Happiness is like a ripe grape, sweet and tasty. But life is a salad full of bitter fruits. Only true gourmets can find and enjoy the few grapes. (Heiko Noack)
Be strict with yourself. Be strict with yourself, prune the lush branches; the happier the grapes will grow for them one day. (Johann Gottfried von Herder)
Raisins and grapes
Green grapes, ripe grapes and raisins, all this is change, not to no longer be but to become what is not yet. (Marcus Aurelius)
Raisins proper are mostly made from the Muscat of Alexandria, although other large, white, sweet grapes are sometimes used. (U.P. Hedrick)
Sun and grapes
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)
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. (Thomas Love Peacock)
Fragrance and grapes
The tasty melon, the succulent fig, – And these amber grapes which perfume the air. (Jacques Delille)
The morning wind blows from the east and carries the aroma of flowering grapes – the delicate aroma of mignonette and boiled wine. (Aleksandr Kuprin)
Men and grapes
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. (William Shakespeare)
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it’s our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you’d like to have dinner with. (Jill Shalvis)
Art and grapes
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape. (Franz Grillparzer)
And the grapes, now do you count each? No, of course not. What strikes you is their clear, amber colour and the bloom which models the form by softening it. (Édouard Manet)
Patience and grapes
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. (Epictetus)
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm’s cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. (Rumi)
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