Adam and Eve’s apple and many more fruits can be found in this collection of proverbs and quotes.
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Teeth as sugar apple seeds.
Originates from an old fashion of Vietnamese ladies. In the 19th century and earlier, fashionable ladies used to stain their teeth in black. The white teethed ladies were ordinary and not so fashionable.The apple cannot be stuck back on the tree of knowledge.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Children will look like or behave like their parents.The apple falls on the head that's under it.
The best cook drops a whole tomato.
The better the fruit, the more wasps to eat it.
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.
The blossoms in the spring are the fruit in autumn.
The branch bearing the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground.
The cherry blossom among flowers, the warrior among men.
The children eat the fruit and the father sleeps on the peel.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLatin: Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam ipse numquam.
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
BibleSource: Genesis 1:12
The effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
Douglas AdamsSource: The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
Anthony TrollopeThe fire is winter's fruit.
The fruit of silence is tranquility.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.
BibleSource: Proverbs 11:30
The fruits of a tree on the roadside are never eaten ripe.
The good men seem to be like coconuts. Others are like the jujube fruit.
Beautiful only on the outside but sour inside.The grape is not ripened by the rays of the moon.
The grapes are sour.
The hanging fruit is never too heavy for the creeper to bear.
The higher the tree, the sweeter the plum.
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
Halle BerryThe most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
The nice apples are always eaten by nasty pigs.
The night may be dark, but the apples have been counted.
The old monkey gets the apple.
The oldest trees bear the softest fruits.
The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit.
The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
The only thing better than this is an apricot in Damascus.
It doesn't get any better than this.The pumpkin vine never bears watermelons.
The rose has its thorn, the peach its worm.
The rotten apple injures its neighbour.
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree.
Edgar Allan PoeThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo GalileiThe sweetest grapes hang highest.
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MolièreThe trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit.
The wild pear has blossomed: the kid goat no longer suffers.
The words of elders are like the gooseberry: bitter at first, then sweet.
The world has always been like this: one man feasts on the jackfruit and the other gets stuck in the sap.
Then God said, 'Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.' And so it was. The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good.
BibleSource: Genesis 1:11-12
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
BibleSource: Genesis 3:7
There are many who throw stones at a red apple.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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