Fruit Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Fruit

Please enjoy these Fruit Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit
of obedience to the laws of life.
- Helen Keller

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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx

If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,
is the end.
- Walter Pater

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar.
Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat,
milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.
- Gene Tunney

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

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing
diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as
well as increasing levels of exercise.
- Linford Christie

Be not like the sugarcane -
do not hold your sweetness inside.
Be like the fruit tree -
be generous with your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie (inspired by Tagore)

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- Moliere

No greater thing 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

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning,
not the result of ignorance or accident,
its children will become the foundation of a new race.
- Margaret Sanger

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
- Moliere

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables,
fruit and beef for protein and iron.
- Sasha Cohen

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare,
and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
- Anton Chekhov

The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau

I'm forbidden fruit.
Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want
you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out
and spits out blood and all that stuff.
- Gene Simmons

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many
years nailing fruit crates together.
- Robert Mondavi

America must be the moral leader.
It is not enough to have power.
Power must be used to protect freedom and give all
people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
- Jesse Helms

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
- Bodhidharma

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that
yogurt comes with less fruit.
- Rush Limbaugh

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought
forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled.
He only cursed it when it was barren.
- Edwin Louis Cole

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
- Henry Fielding

Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad,
and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
- Mark Hamill

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

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green
and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit,
surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
- Johannes Tauler

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
- Luc de Clapier

But I think it's a little different in Europe,
because 40 is really the best age for a woman.
That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
- Juliette Binoche

I have never been able to look upon America as young
and vital but rather as prematurely old,
as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
- Henry Miller

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit;
like a cunning bloodhound,
it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
- Francis Beaumont

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause,
even though it may not be immediately recognized,
ultimately bears fruit.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
- Will Rogers

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste.
You know when a peach is absolutely perfect...
it's sublime.
I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
- Kathy Mattea

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood,
place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have
room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
- Fred Allen

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant,
or a child in its mother's womb.
- Jean Arp

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.
It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
- Jacques Barzun

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same,
the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
- Henry Miller

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 Polanski

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much
money every day in the season,
without calves and lambs, and without the manure,
which all return corn and fruit.
- Robert Grosseteste

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

In the wintertime, in the snow country,
citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one,
it was better than ambrosia.
- James Earl Jones

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
- Democritus

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

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine,
just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas.
- Horace Gray

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

If we should be blessed by some great reward,
such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
- Bodhidharma

No fruit.
No veggie.
- Bea Arthur

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
- Thomas Fuller

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

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity
and bear in him their own fruit.
If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be
around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
- Mary Cassatt

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
- Walter de La Mare

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
- Adam Weishaupt

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased,
the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
- Felix Adler

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,
and he who plants kindness gathers love.
- Saint Basil

The style of an author should be the image of his mind,
but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
- Edward Gibbon

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine,
or enjoy friendship, love or life.
- George Herbert

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear
the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once.
It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully.
Temperance is wickedness.
- Stephen Fry

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Someone once threw me a small, brown,
hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
- Erma Bombeck

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school
I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice
and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
- John Thaw

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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie