Fruit Quotes - page 2

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. (William Ellery Channing)
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation you do not find it among gross people. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. View quote
John Dryden
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. View quote
William Blake
Diligence increases the fruit of toil. A dilatory man ever wrestles with losses. View quote
Hesiod
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. View quote
Helen Hunt Jackson
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children. View quote
Roman Polański
Love is often the fruit of marriage. (Molière)
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. View quote
Walter Scott
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? View quote
Albert Einstein
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. View quote
Paul
The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest. View quote
Deepika Padukone
I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth. View quote
Abbas Kiarostami
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too. View quote
Graeme Murphy
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? View quote
Robert Dale Owen
If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... View quote
Evelyn Waugh
O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
Live in each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. View quote
George Sarton
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile. View quote
Yukio Mishima