Quotes About Fruit

Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Knowledge only becomes wisdom, when it is utilized and produces fruit that makes it possibleto reach the goals that God has set.

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

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

I like to peel it and share it with friends. You can spread the love with an orange.

The almond, the first fruit to flower round the Mediterranean, heralds the arrival of spring. It is also an early nectar for the honey bees.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.

Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward.

Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion.

ON ANGER: "It is the base and vile bramble, the fruit of the earth's curse, that tears and rends what is next to it." Thomas Adams

When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit