Fruit Quotes: Juicy Words of Wisdom

"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree"

"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"The entire fruit is already present in the seed"

Tertullian, Author

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

Harold MacMillan, Politician

"A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west"

Mike Royko, Writer

"I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up"

Mary Cassatt, Artist

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit"

Moliere, Playwright

"I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"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, Politician

"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is"

Terry Prachett, Author

"Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice"

Algernon Sidney, Politician

"I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron"

Sasha Cohen, Athlete

"The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can"

Paul Kurtz, Philosopher

"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

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

Democritus, Philosopher

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"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, Author

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