Adam and Eve’s apple and many more fruits can be found in this collection of proverbs and quotes.
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An ass does not appreciate fruit compote.
An old banana leaf was once young and green.
An orange never bears a lime.
And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.
Francois de MalherbeAnyone can count the number of seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. SchullerApple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better.
Are you nuts?
As the tree, so the fruit.
As the tree, so the fruit; as the mistress, so the maid.
As they went on Bilbo looked from side to side for something to eat; but the blackberries were still only in flower, and of course there were no nuts, not even hawthorn-berries.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
Jim DavisAvoid suspicion: when walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't tie your shoe.
Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.
Be a pineapple, stand tall, wear a crown, be sweet.
(unknown author)Beautiful grapes often make poor wine.
Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.
Beneath these green mountains where spring rules the year, the irbarbutus and loquat in season appear, and feasting on lychee, 300 a day, I shouldn't mind staying eternally here.
Su ShihBetter a handful of dry dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.
Better an apple pie than apple blossom.
Big trees cast more shadow than fruit.
Bitter fruit will fall before the ripe.
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
BibleSource: Psalms 52:8
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Fred AllenColor is the fruit of life.
Guillaume ApollinaireCrime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.
Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves.
Different men have different opinions; some prefer apples, some onions.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.
BibleSource: Deuteronomy 22:9
Dogs don't like bananas, but can't bear to think chickens eat them.
Don't call me a little olive until you've picked me.
Don't expect a cherry tree from an acorn.
Don't marry a girl who wants strawberries in January.
Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves.
Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates.
Don't upset the apple cart.
Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.
William ButlerAbout strawberry.
Durian: tastes like heaven ... smells like hell.
Eat coconuts while you have teeth.
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
Elm trees have beautiful branches but hardly ever bear fruit.
Encountering a fallen Durian.
Good luck.Even without drumbeats, banana leaves dance.
Every cider apple has a worm.
Every fresh banana leaf should eventually become a dry banana leaf.
Every raisin contains a pip.
Everything is not all peaches and cream.
Except the vine, there is no plant which bears a fruit of as great importance as the olive.
PlinyFifty lemons are a load for one person, but for fifty persons they are perfume.
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