Fruit famous quotes

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Risk #Taste #Fruit

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

#Positive #Carpe Diem #Fruit

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

#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

#Christian #Light #Fruit

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

#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

#Hands #Ballet #Fruit

The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.
-- Alan Tudyk

#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

#Fashion #Today #Fruit

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

#Character #Adversity #Fruit

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
-- Alexander Crummell

#Civilization #Fruit #Bases

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

#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

#Tree #Fruit #Pears

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

#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

#Waiting #Gardening #Fruit

In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is fruit of man’s work.
-- Allan Kardec

#Men #Fruit #Spirit

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Love #Fruit #Lifetime

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

#Tree #Culture #Fruit

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

#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

#Fruit #Pessimist #Brown

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

#Thinking #Fruit #Bananas

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

#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

#Bird #Fruit #Flight

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

#Poetry #Fruit #Should

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
-- Aristippus

#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

#Dragons #Juice #Fruit

I love fruit, when it is expensive.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#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

#Order #Class #Fruit

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Wisdom #Courage #Fruit

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

#News #Littles #Fruit

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

#Adventure #Tree #Fruit

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

#Fruit #Crisis

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
-- Bill Bailey

#Animal #Fruit #Stealing

My fruit grows on other people’s trees.
-- Bob Buford

#People #Tree #Fruit

You had me at fruit pies
-- Bobby Hill

#Pie #Fruit

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

#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

#Meditation #Enemy #Fruit

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

#Honor #Microsoft #Fruit

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

#Lunch #Littles #Fruit

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

#Fall #Tree #Fruit

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

#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

#Christian #Discipline #Fruit

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Wise #Literature #Fruit

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

#Wisdom #Intuition #Fruit

Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.
-- Caroline Anne Southey

#Sweet #Half #Fruit

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#War #World #Fruit

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Friends #Fruit #Prosperity

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

#Complaining #Fruit

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

#Inspirational #Sweet #Fruit

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

#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

#Education #Desire #Fruit

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

#Race #Fruit #Aliens

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

#Tree #Fruit #Obedience

Obedience is the fruit of faith.
-- Christina Rossetti

#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

#Fruit #Life Is #Authenticity

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

#Gossip #Tree #Fruit

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

#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

#Jesus #Grace #Fruit

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

#Prayer #Blessing #Fruit

This is one Fruit Loop beyond certifiable.
-- Darynda Jones

#Fruit

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

#Fruit #Grows #Labor

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

#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

#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

#Goes On #Next #Fruit

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.
-- Deepika Padukone

#Hard Work #Fruit #Sweetest

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

#Science #Fruit #Chance

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

#Goal #Waiting #Fruit

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Roots #Humanity #Fruit

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

#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

#Tree #Feelings #Fruit

Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.
-- Earl Derr Biggers

#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

#Teaching #Secret #Fruit

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Tree #Fruit #Shakes

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

#Tree #Literature #Fruit

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.
-- Eleanor of Aquitaine

#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

#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

#Struggle #Fighting #Fruit

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

#Revenge #Fruit

I don't like vegetables and most fruit.
-- Emma Roberts

#Vegetables #Fruit

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

#Food #Faces #Fruit

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

#Judging #Tree #Fruit

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

#Weather #Fruit #Degrees

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

#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

#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

#Flirting #Giving #Fruit

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Men #Fruit

And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.
-- Francois de Malherbe

#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

#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

#Fear #Skins #Fruit

How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun
-- Gena Showalter

#Angel #Thinking #Fruit

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Fruit #Bearing Fruit #Produce

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Fruit #Ripening #Schemes

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

#Soul #Littles #Fruit

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

#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

#May #Fruit #Seduction

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

#Happiness #Poison #Fruit

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

#Maturity #Men #Fruit