“ The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
“ Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through Under the Andes to the Cape, Suffered no savor of the earth to escape. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ 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
“ A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him… ”
- Zen Poem- Copy
“ I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
“ Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy! — take them as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
“ Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes. : Sleeper. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
“ I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. ”
- John Milton- Copy
“ Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
“ As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
“ When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
“ "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible, thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.". ”
- James Hurst- Copy
“ A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
“ Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
“ The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
“ You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
“ Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine - 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
“ A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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