Adam and Eve’s apple and many more fruits can be found in this collection of proverbs and quotes.
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Mock the palm tree only when the date harvest is over.
Money buys cherries.
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to fools.
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
No apple tree is immune from worms.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel JohnsonNo melon peddler cries, 'Bitter melons'. No wine dealer says, 'Sour wine'.
No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree.
Not all the tree's blossoms will bear fruit.
O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
William ShakespeareOnce you taste a pineapple, you'll never go for any other fruit.
Swahili: Ukila nanasi, tunda lingine basiOne armpit cannot hold two watermelons.
One bad apple spoils the bunch.
One eats figs whilst the other pays.
One gives a melon, the other gets the stomach cramps.
One hand can't hold two watermelons.
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
Henry David ThoreauOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple.
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.
Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.
Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.
Other land blueberry; own land strawberry.
Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet.
Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.
Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
Peel a fig for your friend, a peach for your enemy.
Pick up a sesame seed only to lose a watermelon.
Pick your friends like you pick your fruit.
Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake... Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.
Alessio VinciPoor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye.
Sir Walter ScottSource: Old Mortality
Prickly pear trees don't produce peaches.
Rather a single grape for me than a brace of figs for thee.
Real friends will share even a strawberry.
Receive a plum, return a peach.
Ripe fruit falls by itself, but it does not fall into your mouth.
September brings acorn and olives.
Sharing figs can leave you with none at all.
She's as sweet as a nut.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: North and South
Small choice in rotten apples.
Some men will build a wine cellar when they have found just one grape.
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma BombeckSometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.
South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day,
Back to pasture, back to mead,
Where the kine and oxen feed!
Back to gardens on the hills
Where the berry swells and fills
Under sunlight, under day!
South away! and South away!
J.R.R. TolkienSeek the sunlight and the day,
Back to pasture, back to mead,
Where the kine and oxen feed!
Back to gardens on the hills
Where the berry swells and fills
Under sunlight, under day!
South away! and South away!
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 9 - Barrels Out of Bond
Part of a song by the elves
Stolen fruit is the sweetest.
Strawberries and cream are all kindness and no common sense, for they'll give him a horrid fit of indigestion.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Wives and Daughters
Swallow a date with its stone.
Teacher: "George Washington not only chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Now do you know why his father didn't punish him?"
Student: "Because George still had the axe in his hand."
Student: "Because George still had the axe in his hand."
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