Orson Welles Quotes

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

I'm glad I didn't get to WWE until I did because I was more complete at 32 than I was at 25. It all happens for a reason.

I always thought that marriage needs to happen at the right time, for the right reasons, and with the right person.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

The right timing is not always our timing.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.