Fruit Quotes

The roots of education ... are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle)
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. View quote
Henry Fielding
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. View quote
Joseph Addison
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. View quote
Molière
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. View quote
Felix Adler
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. View quote
Epictetus
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. View quote
George Herbert
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. (Walter Pater)
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life. View quote
Helen Keller
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. View quote
Will Rogers
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. View quote
Louis Pasteur
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. View quote
Victor Hugo
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. View quote
Paul Kurtz
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. View quote
Arthur Miller
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? (Honoré de Balzac)
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. View quote
Groucho Marx
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation you do not find it among gross people. View quote
Samuel Johnson