The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Francis Bacon Quotes

The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted.

The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted.

The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted.

The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted.