Grapes Quotes - Page 5

• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Break Even

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

  W. C. Fields

  Beautiful, Drinking, Wine

  Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (motion picture) (1941).

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• The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

  John Steinbeck

  Cutting, Wrath, Forever

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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• Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

  John Steinbeck

  Kids, Fighting, Wrath

  The Grapes of Wrath ch. 28 (1939)

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• I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

  Diogenes

  Wine, Drunk, Cost

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  Euripides

  Grief, Wine, Sleep

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Foxes, Littles, Spoil

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

  Janis Joplin

  Wine, Expression

  Song: Trust Me, Album: Pearl

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• It all went a bit grape-shaped.

  Jason McAteer

  Football, Bits

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• Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

  Horace

  Strong, Wine, Boys

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• Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
  Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

  John Milton

  Crush, Sweet, Wine

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.70

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• Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead!

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Alcohol, Offensive, Forsake

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• O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
  O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
  O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
  O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.31

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• 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

  Eye, Growing, Realizing

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• In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Sunset, Autumn

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• There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Land, Purple

  "The Land of Git-Thare", reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

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• If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Beautiful, Jesus, Believe

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.510, Discovery House

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• 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

  Hands, Purple, Erotic

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.132, Knopf

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• 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

  People, Individual, Easier

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• A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings ... Even if you see someone sin with your own eyes, do not judge; for often even your eyes are deceived.

  John Climacus

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I look like the wrath of grapes.

  Jane Ace

  Wrath, Looks

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• A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

  Alexander Pope

  Hair, Stones

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• I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

  John Steinbeck

  Want, Stories, Said

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.148, Penguin

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• White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cake, White

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.

  Hadewijch

  Love Is, Desire, Want

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.335, Paulist Press

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