Fruit Quotes:

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Risk, Taste, Fruit, Forbidden Fruit

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Positive, Carpe Diem, Fruit, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Forgiveness, Fruit, Bears

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

- Adoniram Judson Gordon

topic: Christian, Light, Fruit, Christian Living, Holy Living

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

- Al-Ghazali

topic: Love, Degrees, Fruit

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

- Alan Bennett

topic: Hands, Ballet, Fruit, Conan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

- Alan Tudyk

topic: Fruit, Aging, Raisins

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Today, Fruit

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

- Alec-Tweedie

source: Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

topic: Character, Adversity, Fruit

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

- Alexander Crummell

topic: Civilization, Fruit, Bases, Fruit Of Labor

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Writing, Knowledge, Fruit

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Tree, Fruit, Pears

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Flower, Gone, Fruit

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

- Alice Walker

topic: Waiting, Gardening, Fruit, Willing To Wait

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

source: Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

topic: Love, Fruit, Lifetime, Ripe Fruit

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Tree, Culture, Fruit, Fruit Trees

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

- Amilcar Cabral

source: Amilcar Cabral (1979). “Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral”, p.141, NYU Press

topic: People, Culture, Fruit

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

- Amy Waldman

source: Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan

topic: Fruit, Pessimist, Brown

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.

- Andy Murray

topic: Thinking, Fruit, Bananas

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Fruits Of The Spirit, Fruit, Spirit

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

- Anzia Yezierska

source: Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

topic: Bird, Fruit, Flight, Birds In Flight

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Poetry, Fruit, Should

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

- Aristippus

topic: Education, Tree, Fruit

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

- Aristotle

topic: Dragons, Juice, Fruit, Draco

I love fruit, when it is expensive.

- Arthur Wing Pinero

source: Arthur Wing Pinero (2007). “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”, p.77, Broadview Press

topic: Fruit, Culinary

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

- August Strindberg

topic: Order, Class, Fruit, Upper Class

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Wisdom, Courage, Fruit, Worldly Wisdom, Be Courageous

One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.

- Barack Obama

topic: News, Littles, Fruit

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Adventure, Tree, Fruit, Tree Of Knowledge

Whatever crisis you are going through, fruit will come from it. Allow the crisis to bring fruit.

- Beth Moore

topic: Fruit, Crisis

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

- Bill Bailey

topic: Animal, Fruit, Stealing

You had me at fruit pies

- Bobby Hill

topic: Pie, Fruit

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

- Bohumil Hrabal

topic: Beautiful, Mouths, Fruit

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

- Bokar Rinpoche

topic: Meditation, Enemy, Fruit

Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.

- Brendan Sullivan

topic: Honor, Microsoft, Fruit, Your Honor

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

- Brian Jacques

source: Brian Jacques (1986). “Redwall”, Ace Books

topic: Lunch, Littles, Fruit, Redwall

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?

- Brian K. Vaughan

source: Brian K. Vaughan (2009). “Runaways: Pride & Joy”, p.51, Marvel Entertainment

topic: Fall, Tree, Fruit

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

- Bruce Feiler

topic: Fruit, Adam, Disappoint

If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God will invite you to abide more deeply with Him.

- Bruce Wilkinson

topic: Christian, Discipline, Fruit, Prunes

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Wise, Literature, Fruit, Wise Life, Pollination

It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Wisdom, Intuition, Fruit

Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.

- Caroline Anne Southey

source: Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.238

topic: Sweet, Half, Fruit

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.

- Carolyn Hart

source: Carolyn Hart (2009). “Dead Man's Island”, p.41, Crimeline

topic: May, Fruit, Reputation

I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

- Carrie Ann Inaba

topic: Lucky, Cookies, Fruit

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

topic: Saint, Fruit, Deny

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

- Chaim Potok

source: Chaim Potok (1984). “My Name is Asher Lev”, Fawcett

topic: Fruit, Bears

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

- Charles Bass

topic: War, World, Fruit, War On Terrorism

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Friends, Fruit, Prosperity, Ripe Fruit

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

- Charles Goodyear

topic: Complaining, Fruit

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Inspirational, Sweet, Fruit, Sweet Fruit

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

- Charles Simmons

topic: Choices, Fruit, Good Intentions

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

- Charles William Eliot

topic: Education, Desire, Fruit, Liberal Education, Desire To Learn

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

- Chris Ware

source: Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2001.

topic: Race, Fruit, Aliens

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Tree, Fruit, Obedience

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Dedication, Fruit, Obedience

I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

- Christine Caine

topic: Fruit, Life Is, Authenticity

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

- Chrystos

topic: Gossip, Tree, Fruit, Grapefruit, Grapevine

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

- Chuck Smith

topic: Trying, Looks, Fruit

To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

- Cornelius Plantinga

topic: Jesus, Grace, Fruit, Jesus Resurrection, Fruits Of The Spirit

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

- D. A. Carson

source: D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.33, Baker Academic

topic: Prayer, Blessing, Fruit

This is one Fruit Loop beyond certifiable.

- Darynda Jones

topic: Fruit, Loops

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

- Dave Winer

topic: Fruit, Grows, Labor, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

- David Hume

topic: Political, Doubt, Fruit

Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.

- David J. Lieberman

topic: People, Fruit, Want

That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

- Dawna Markova

topic: Goes On, Next, Fruit

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

- Deepika Padukone

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hard Work, Fruit, Sweetest

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

- Democritus

topic: Science, Fruit, Chance

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Goal, Waiting, Fruit, Willing To Wait

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

topic: Roots, Humanity, Fruit

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

- Douglas Wilson

topic: Tree, Machines, Fruit

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Tree, Feelings, Fruit, Chopping

Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.

- Earl Derr Biggers

topic: Garden, Fruit, Murder

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

- Edward Sapir

source: Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1970). “Culture, Language and Personality”, p.62, Univ of California Press

topic: Teaching, Secret, Fruit

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

source: Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library

topic: Tree, Fruit, Shakes, Tree Of Life, Unheard

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Tree, Literature, Fruit, Figs

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

- Eleanor of Aquitaine

topic: Inspirational, Tree, Fruit

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

- Ella Reeve Bloor

source: Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

topic: Hands, Tools, Fruit

even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

- Ella Winter

source: Ella Winter (1963). “And not to yield: an autobiography”

topic: Struggle, Fighting, Fruit

Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.

- Emile Gaboriau

source: Emile Gaboriau (1899). “File”

topic: Revenge, Fruit

I don't like vegetables and most fruit.

- Emma Roberts

topic: Vegetables, Fruit

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

- Enrico Caruso

topic: Food, Faces, Fruit, Washing, Eating Food

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

- Euripides

topic: Judging, Tree, Fruit

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

- Fareed Zakaria

topic: Weather, Fruit, Degrees, American Citizens

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

- Firoozeh Dumas

source: Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.72, Random House

topic: Children, Tree, Fruit

Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

- Frances Mayes

topic: Orange, Body, Fruit

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Flirting, Giving, Fruit, Luster

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Men, Fruit

And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.

- Francois de Malherbe

topic: Flower, Fruit

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Thinking, Tree, Fruit

A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.

- Gayle Brandeis

source: Gayle Brandeis (2009). “Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write”, p.180, Zondervan

topic: Fear, Skins, Fruit

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Fruit, Bearing Fruit, Produce, Foliage, Erudition

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Fruit, Ripening, Schemes

The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

- George Santayana

topic: Soul, Littles, Fruit, Bearing Fruit

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

- George Sarton

source: George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.13, Courier Corporation

topic: Thinking, Iconography, Fruit

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

- George Washington

topic: May, Fruit, Seduction, Forbidden Fruit

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

- Georges Bataille

source: Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

topic: Happiness, Poison, Fruit, Tainted, Pleasure And Happiness

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

source: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

topic: Maturity, Men, Fruit

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

topic: Hatred, Fruit

Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.

- Greg Walden

topic: Growing, Way, Fruit, Processors

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

- Groucho Marx

topic: Time, Arrows, Fruit, Milestone Birthday, Infinite Time

Color is the fruit of life.

- Guillaume Apollinaire

topic: Color, Fruit, Colour

I always advise eating regular meals — a mix of healthy carbs, protein and fruits and veggies.

- Gunnar Peterson

source: "Scary Celeb Diet Tricks No Woman Should Try!" by Shaun Dreisbach, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

topic: Healthy, Meals, Fruit, Fruits And Veggies

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

- Harold B. Lee

topic: Thanksgiving, Long, Fruit

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

- Harold MacMillan

topic: Power, Sea, Fruit

I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.

- Heber J. Grant

topic: Sweet, Hands, Fruit

The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.

- Heidi Baker

topic: Fruit, Abundance, Intimacy

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Fruit, God Love, Intimate

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Community, Important, Fruit

All that we can hope from these inspirations, which are the fruits of unconscious work, is to obtain points of departure for such calculations. As for the calculations themselves, they must be made in the second period of conscious work which follows the inspiration, and in which the results of the inspiration are verified and the consequences deduced.‎

- Henri Poincare

topic: Inspiration, Hard Work, Fruit, Calculations

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Covenant, Fruit, Ghost, Holy Ghost

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

- Henry Clay Trumbull

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 315), 1895.

topic: Jesus, Might, Fruit

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Apples, Fruit

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Success, Growth, Fruit, Slow Growth

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

topic: Children, Men, Fruit

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

- Henry Miller

topic: Tree, Joy, Fruit, Ripe Fruit, Sheer Joy

The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

- Henry Norman Hudson

source: Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.220

topic: Fruit, Firsts, Reason, Human Reason

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

- Henry Rollins

topic: Life, Hands, Fruit, Lemons

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Fruit, Christianity, Good Nature, True Christianity

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Tree, Way, Fruit, Fruit Trees, Pleasant Things

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Children, Two, Fruit

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

- Horatius Bonar

topic: Peaceful, Ministry, Fruit

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

topic: Garden, Fruit, Locks, Perpetrators

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

- Ice T

topic: Fruit, Lowest

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

- Imran Khan

topic: Self, Tree, Fruit, Fruit Trees

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

- Isaac Barrow

topic: Rewards, Fruit

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: May, Fruit, Found, Conversion

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Men, Fruit, Shows, True Faith

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

- J. I. Packer

topic: Fruit, Justified, Truth Is

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

- Jaggi Vasudev

topic: Spiritual, Humanity, Fruit

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

- James D. Watson

topic: Dream, American Dream, Fruit

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

- James Earl Jones

topic: Country, Snow, Fruit, Citrus, Ambrosia

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

- James Joyce

topic: Stars, Science, Fruit

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable.

- Jann Arden

topic: Wine, Vegetables, Fruit

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

- Jay-Z

topic: Fighting, Fruit, Grapes, Motorbike

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

- Jean Giraudoux

topic: Country, Fruit, Corruption

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

- Jean Paul

topic: Beauty, Party, Fruit

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

- Jean Racine

topic: Fruit, Second Marriage, Suspicion

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

topic: Art, Taste, Fruit

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Patience, Sweet, Fruit, Turkish, Keep Patience

Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.

- Jeannine Parvati Baker

topic: Heart, Fruit

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

- Jeremy Bentham

topic: Suffering, Fruit, Language, Unkindness, Unkind

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Morning, Next, Fruit

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

- Joe Slovo

topic: Country, Fruit, Bears, Irreversible

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

- Johann Gottfried Herder

source: Der Teutsche Merkur, Volume 20, p. 214, 1781.

topic: Fruit, Delicate, Craving

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

- Johannes Tauler

topic: Heart, Tongue, Fruit, Surpassing

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

- John Henninger Reagan

source: John Henninger Reagan (1906). “Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War”

topic: Fruit, Conflict, Irrepressible

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

- John Hoeven

topic: Earth Day, World, Fruit, World Earth Day

I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit,

- John Key

topic: Sex, Fruit, Firsts, Forbidden Fruit

study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

- John Knox

topic: Practice, Fruit, Study

When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.

- John Lindberg

topic: Peace, Fruit, Population

Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

- John Milton

topic: Eye, Tree, Fruit

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

- John of Salisbury

source: John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.104, Paul Dry Books

topic: Inquiry, Hardship, Fruit

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

- John Owen

topic: Fruit, Repentance

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: Positive Thinking, Fruit, Originality

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Gratitude, Tree, Fruit, Joyfulness

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

- Jose Marti

topic: Earth, Rivals, Fruit

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Recovery, Addiction, Fruit, Blame Someone, Blaming Yourself

It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.

- Joseph Salerno

topic: Fall, Growth, Fruit

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Roots, Rotten, Fruit

The fruit of your life will be what you believe you are.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Believe, Fruit

Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Trials, Fruit, Grows

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.

- Julia Cameron

topic: Notebook, Fruit, Firsts

The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

- Julian of Norwich

topic: Prayer, Purpose, Fruit

But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

- Justina Chen

topic: Different, May, Fruit, Unforgettable, Forbidden Fruit

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

- Juvenal

topic: Fruit, Crime, Remorse

The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.

- Kabir

topic: Fall, Apples, Fruit, Petals

One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.

- Karen Wheaton

topic: Prayer, Fruit, Obedience

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...

- Kiran Desai

source: Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Fruit, Bananas, Offensive

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

- Kumail Nanjiani

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Meat, Fruit, Carts

I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

- Lara Stone

topic: Healthy, Trying, Fruit

And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised...

- Lauren Kate

topic: Ego, Fruit

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

- Leonardo Boff

source: Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.44, Orbis Books

topic: Justice, Society, Fruit

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

- Lilly Pulitzer

source: "Lilly Pulitzer, designer of trademark tropical dresses, dies aged 81", www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2013.

topic: Vegetables, Fancy, Fruit, Peacock

Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.

- Lorenz Oken

source: Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.2

topic: Nature, Men, Fruit

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

- Louis Pasteur

topic: Discovery, Hands, Fruit

Water the root to enjoy the fruit.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

topic: Roots, Water, Fruit

I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Giving, Fruit, Nutrition

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

- Malcolm Wallop

source: "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

topic: Rights, Issues, Fruit

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Tree, Fruit, Environment

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

- Margaret Cavendish

topic: Brain, Fruit, Plagiarism

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Perfect, Tree, Fruit

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

- Maria Montessori

topic: Children, Adults, Fruit

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

- Mark Batterson

topic: Prayer, Forever, Fruit

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

- Martin Luther

topic: Real, Fruit, Christianity, No Forgiveness, Renewal Of Life

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

source: 'Answered, for Lord William Hamilton' in Lord Wharncliffe (ed.) 'The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' (1861) vol. 2, p. 477

topic: Encouragement, Fall, Fruit

It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.

- Maud Grieve

source: Maud Grieve (1971). “A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses”, p.475, Courier Corporation

topic: Fruit, Valuable, Lemons

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

- Max Lucado

source: Max Lucado (2013). “God's Inspirational Promises”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Christian, Today, Fruit

Eat food. Eat actual food. I try to not eat anything processed or sugar-free - I eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

- Megyn Price

source: "Rules Of Engagement‘s Megyn Price Is A Triathlete". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

topic: Vegetables, Trying, Fruit, Fruits And Vegetables

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

- Merle Travis

topic: Sweet, Fruit, Bitter

We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

- Michael Greger

topic: Vegetables, Fruit, Eating, Fruits And Vegetables

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

- Michael Steinhardt

topic: Addiction, Fruit, Process, Savoring

According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born.

- Michel Odent

topic: Baby, Tree, Fruit

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

- Michelle Forbes

topic: Childhood, Fruit, My Favorite, Pears

You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat.

- Mike Moreno

source: Mike Moreno (2013). “The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: Vegetables, Fruit, Meat

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Sports, Boxing, Fruit, Forbidden Love, Forbidden Fruit

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Europe, Important, Fruit, Translators

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Compassion, Love Is, Fruit

I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do.

- Mr. T

topic: Love, Littles, Fruit, This Is Me, Little Money

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

- Murasaki Shikibu

source: Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.9, Courier Corporation

topic: Flower, Fruit

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

- Natalie Clifford Barney

topic: Fall, Tree, Fruit, Ripe Fruit