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• Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!

  Henry Abbey

  Autumn, Giving, Gold

  Henry Abbey, “Autumn Ballad”

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• 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

  Jobs, Wine, Dark

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• I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

  David O. Selznick

  Eruption

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

  Horace

  Wine, Light, Soul

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• My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

  Daisy Ashford

  Ashes, Absence, Sour

  'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 8

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• What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Dream, Wine

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait".

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Wine, Humor

  Live album: "Mitch All Together". Track 3 "Not Track Five, Not Chainsaw Juggler", December 9, 2003.

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• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Horse

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

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• 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.

  Believe, Responsibility, Expression

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• He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Life, Song

  "Luther's Works: Table talk".

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• In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

  John Steinbeck

  Anger, Wrath, Vintage

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.22, Penguin

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wine, Tolerance, Vines

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• Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
  In the belly of the grape

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Grew, Belly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

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• Don't long for the unripe grape.

  Horace

  Long

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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

  Anger, Hatred, Rage

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.125

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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

  Life, Patience, Time

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

  Doc Severinsen

  Acres, Neighbor, Goodness

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• To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Rivers, Vineyards

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• Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.

  Jeff Cox

  Wine, Encounters, Mortals

  Jeff Cox (2015). “From Vines to Wines, 5th Edition: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine”, p.8, Storey Publishing

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• Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

  Aristophanes

  Clever, Wine, Mind

  "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..

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• It's just that the grape has me down.

  Charles Bukowski

  Charles Bukowski, David Calonne (2013). “Absence of the Hero”, p.32, City Lights Books

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• October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.

  Ken Weber

  Autumn, Wind, Nuts

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• And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

  John Steinbeck

  Strength, Wrath, Sound

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.191, Hamilton Books

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