Grapes

"Always eat grapes downwards - that is, always eat the best grape first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last."

"The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge."

"Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva."

"Nay, in deaths hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Joves."

"And the grapes, now do you count each? No, of course not. What strikes you is their clear, amber colour and the bloom which models the form by softening it."

"Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?"