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«The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.»
«The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.»
«One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.»
«The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust»
Author: Diogenes (Founder, Philosopher) | About: Wine | Keywords: disgust, grapes, intoxication, vine
«The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brook, cluster, cut down, grapes
«That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.»
«The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.»
«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.»
Author: Epictetus | Keywords: fig, grapes, ripen
«To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions that a vine filled with grapes»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: grapes
«The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.»

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