Fruit Quotes - Page 15

• The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Flower, Disease, Trunks

  "Giuseppe Riconosciuto". Part I, 1733.

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• Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Deeds

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Safety, Wish

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• To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.

  Dave Barry

  Gun, Europe, Wind

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• And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Sweet, Apples

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Taken, Sin

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.803

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• We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Order, Law, People

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

  Jeremy Bentham

  Suffering, Language, Produce

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• O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

  Madame de Stael

  Flower, Blood, Years

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

  Edward Gibbon

  Often Is, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon (1802). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.26

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

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Tree, Shakes, Unheard

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

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• The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mind, Shells, Body

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• A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Clouds, Tree

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 24, 2017

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• I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Drawing, Dubious

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.141, Univ of California Press

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• Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, Flower, Soil

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.61, Princeton University Press

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• Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.

  Emily Carr

  Dog, Years, Rose

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

  Alexander Crummell

  Civilization, Bases, Labor

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

  Alastair Cook

  Sweet, Men, Offending

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• Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Blessed, Mouths, Taste

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• Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

  Saeb Erekat

  Civilization, Israel, Sick

  "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

  Joy Harjo

  Memories, Heart, Brain

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• Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Garden, Thinking, Evil

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Sublime, Green

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• A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

  John Heywood

  Care, Woe, Figs

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• The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Generations, Flavor

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