Adam and Eve’s apple and many more fruits can be found in this collection of proverbs and quotes.
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There is a devil in every berry of grape.
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
Alice MeynellThere is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
E.W. HoweThere's no making apples of plums.
There's small choice in rotten apples.
William ShakespeareThey say he can talk French as fast as a maid can eat blackberries.
Thomas HardySource: The Return of the Native
They will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes .
BibleSource: Proverbs 1:31
Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTime flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho MarxTo compare apples and oranges.
Used when two items or groups of items are compared that cannot be practically compared.To eat the bitter fruit of one's own doings.
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; Wine and tarragon make it French; Sour cream makes it Russian; Lemon and cinnamon make it Greek; Soy sauce makes it Chinese; Garlic makes it good.
Alice May BrockTruth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
VoltaireTwo watermelons cannot be held in one hand.
Do not attempt to take on more than you can handle.Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Charles HareUsing a sledge hammer to crack a nut.
Vanity blossoms but bears no fruit.
Watermelon: a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
(unknown author)We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Michelle ObamaWe do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda MeirWe will be grateful to flowers only if they have born fruits.
Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Sam
What is good of a red apple if it has a worm?
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall SmithWhat you give to others bears fruit for yourself.
When a monkey doesn't get a banana, he eats chillies.
When a ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.
When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
When eating the fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
When I kiss you, it will be an important event - one of those things which stand out among their surroundings like the first time you tasted li-chee.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: Have His Carcase
Quoted: Lord Peter Wimsey
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?'
Henry RollinsWhen life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
When life throws you lemons, make lemonade.
When the apple is ripe it will fall.
When the cocoa ripens, it bursts.
When the figs are ripe all the birds want to eat.
When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe.
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana, he says it is not sweet.
When the pear is ripe, it falls.
When you're green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Ray KrocWhether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.
Who has tasted a sour apple, will have the more relish for a sweet one.
Whoever eats the jackfruit, will be touched by the sap.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleWithout wine, even beautiful cherry blossoms have small attraction.
Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
BibleSource: King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.): Matthew 7:16
Year of snow fruit will grow.
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