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Here's to the man
Who owns the land
That bears the grapes
That makes the wine
That tastes as good
As this does. — Omar Khayyam

And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by. — John Steinbeck

It all went a bit grape-shaped. — Jason McAteer

We will eat the figs of our own tree, and the grapes of our own garden. — Anne Rice

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. — Frank Gehry

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. — William Shakespeare

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. — Alexander Pope

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ... — Julia Ward Howe

Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself. — John Steinbeck

A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. — Diogenes Laertius

Wherever wine grapes are grown, it is beautiful. — Margrit Mondavi

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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

From vine to finish. A single grape the start of it, this unlabeled bottle right here in my hand the end of it, the eight hundred grapes inside. — Laura Dave

The flavor of a wine is directly influenced by the soil in which the grapes that made the wine are grown. — Jack Frisks

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language. — John Steinbeck

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with. — Juvenal

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

Got a lot of sinful idears
but they seem kinda sensible. — John Steinbeck

Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes. — Woody Allen

They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life. — John Steinbeck

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning. — Sarah Addison Allen

Beulah, peel me a grape — Mae West

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

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. — Larry McMurtry

I eat stories like grapes. — John Steinbeck

I ain't sleepin'. I got too much to puzzle with. — John Steinbeck

The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth have been set on edge. — Andrew Garve

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good. — Georgie Henley

I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes. — Greg Fitzsimmons

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck. — John Steinbeck

A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes. — Michel Rolland

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael

How's that for the grapes? — John Steinbeck

Are the grapes bitter or sweet? You have to taste. — Marty Rubin

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm glad there's love here. That's all. — John Steinbeck

Eating grapes with a knife and fork is not what one would call refined. It is what one would call ludicrous. — Judith Martin

Sins are like grapes; they come in bunches. — Douglas Wilson

He'd given her the mother of all hangovers - a run-in with the wrath of grapes. — Kresley Cole

They got to live before they can afford to die. — John Steinbeck

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary

I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes. — Voltaire

Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way. — Rolf Dobelli

We'll start over. But you can't start. Only a baby can start — John Steinbeck

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. — Daisy Ashford

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. — Terry Pratchett

Apples, grapes ... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day. — Kristin Chenoweth

When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book. — Jay Parini

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe. — George Herbert

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune. — Mason Cooley

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes. — Adam Ant

In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Your marriage," Jake said, almost impatiently. "It's like the grapes. Just a paint job."
He went straight to bed. — Charlie Carillo

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. — Oswald Chambers

I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes. — J.D. Salinger

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. — John Steinbeck

I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes. — John Steinbeck

Look for bees," said Father. "Bees hang around grapes like boys around kitchens, Doug? — Ray Bradbury

Without good company all dainties
Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes,
Are only seen, not tasted. — Philip Massinger

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

This stuff tastes like the bastard love child of grapes and rubbing alcohol — Allison Pang

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. — Thomas Love Peacock

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'. — John Steinbeck

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. — Dorothy Parker

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour. — Dorothy Parker

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. — Rumi

I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn. — John Steinbeck

You got to think about that day, an' then the nex' day. Jus' take ever' day. — John Steinbeck

and the duck walked up to the lemonaide stand and said, "hey bum bum bum got any grapes? — Bryant Oden

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. — Rodney Dangerfield

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival. — Billy Cannon

I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say. — Mike Tyson

We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine till we tread upon them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. — Neil Kinnock

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes. — John Steinbeck

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

It ain't kin we? It's will we? — John Steinbeck

Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes. — John Allison

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. — Doc Severinsen

Nuts don't come in bunches. Only grapes do. — John Sandford

I climb fences when i got fences to climb. — John Steinbeck

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. — Diogenes

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath ... and even into the 70s. — Charlton Heston

our feet
are grape-squashed in memories

our skins are still flushed
from the touch
of summer's lips. — Sanober Khan

Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes. — Jeaniene Frost

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine — Fay Weldon

I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction. — Wallace Stevens

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. — Scott Lynch

Maybe people do like wine. It's not as nice as just eating the grapes, but it's okay. — Ben Brooks

I look like the wrath of grapes. — Jane Ace

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. — E.B. White

Beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water — Colette

One night, after imbibing about two acres' worth of vineyard grapes, she — Christopher Buckley

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach. — Marguerite De Navarre

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow. — Jonathan Tucker

You trample on hearts as if they're grapes and you're making wine. — Mallory Kane

The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan. — Des Browne

The winter will be short, the summer long,
The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,
Tasting of cider and of scuppernong. — Elinor Wylie

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes. — Lou Holtz