Plums Quotes

• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Perfectly Good, Cynical

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• Life's a pudding full of plums.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life, Pudding

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

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• When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

  Dogen

  Tree, World

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• What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Courage, Bravery, Tree

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

  George William Russell

  Time, Spirit, Evoke

  "Across My Path" by Pelham Edgar, (p. 148), 1952.

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• Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Attitude, Flower, Unique

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• Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes

  Kobayashi Issa

  Moon, Plum Blossoms

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• Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

  Kirby Larson

  Smell, Our Actions, Vinegar

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• What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Cake, Imaginary

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• The rose is a rose,
  And was always a rose.
  But the theory now goes
  That the apple's a rose,
  And the pear is, and so's
  The plum, I suppose.
  The dear only knows
  What will next prove a rose.
  You, of course, are a rose -
  But were always a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Rose, Next

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Children, Vision, Bed

  1822 The Night Before Christmas.

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• She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Dark, Thinking

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• We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

  J. B. Priestley

  Apples, Tree, Complaining

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• beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Sweet, Blue

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• Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Rain, Rivers, Water

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• bees
  dig the plum blossoms

  Charles Olson

  Bees, Plum Blossoms, Insects

  Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.213, New Directions Publishing

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• When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

  Dogen

  Spring, Peaches, Apricots

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• All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

  W. C. Fields

  Insulting, Swallowing, England

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• Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

  Matsuo Basho

  Life, World, Cold

  "A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen".

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• Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

  David Duchovny

  Swimming, Thinking, Two

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• Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, Pockets, Dinner

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, War, Rain

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Mind, Crumbling, Puff

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• How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?

  Amy Lowell

  Beautiful, Moon, Night

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.135, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

  Claire Danes

  Taken, Two, Months

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 1, 2003.

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