Fruit Quotes: Juicy Words of Wisdom

"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

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

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"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

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Will Rogers, Actor

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

Walter Scott, Novelist

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

Mother Teresa, Leader

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

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"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

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"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

"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

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

Moliere, Playwright

"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

"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 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

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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

Democritus, Philosopher

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"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

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

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

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

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"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

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

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

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"The entire fruit is already present in the seed"

Tertullian, Author

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks"

Barack Obama, President

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits"

James Madison, President

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