Best 621 quotes in «fruit quotes» category

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

We enjoy the fruit of the first coming but anticipate the glory of the second.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.

We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.

We identified various sectors of the economy, which we said were growth sectors. I have mentioned tourism. We said, for instance, agro-business. We grow a lot of food and fruit and things like that. It must be possible to process those.

We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

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.

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

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

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

Where there is no fruit, there may be no root.

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!