Georg Riedel quotes

Georg Riedel quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.”
-- Georg Riedel

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“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.”
“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.”
“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!”
“The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ***** begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.”
“I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.”

Source : "'I Was Never an Anti-Semite'". articles.latimes.com. March 01, 2000.
“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
“The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.”
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
“My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if Iâ€™m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.”
“You don't need vision to be a visionary.”

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