Fruit Quotes - page 2

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. (John Dryden)

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

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.

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.

William Blake

Diligence increases the fruit of toil. A dilatory man ever wrestles with losses.

Hesiod

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

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.

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. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

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

Walter Scott

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

Aristotle

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

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.

Paul

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

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.

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.

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?

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...

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.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

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.

Yukio Mishima

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