Fruit Quotes

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.
Abraham Lincoln

Labor, Higher, Superior

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

Happy, Else, Violin

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Love, Times, Within

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Love, Tree

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

Education, Sweet, Bitter

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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere

Best, Grow, Trees

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Friendship, Work, Friends

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Yourself, Blame

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience, Sweet, Bitter

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.
Saint Basil

Love, Friendship, Good

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

Faith, Happiness, Seed

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
Barack Obama

Morning, Car, Getting

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Will Rogers

Sometimes, Limb

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma Bombeck

Someone, Small, Dead

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo

God, Sorrow, Weak

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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'
Demetri Martin

Hope, Problem, Another

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Stephen Fry

Experience, Insult, Once

No greater thing 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.
Epictetus

Time, Tell, Desire

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.
Epictetus

Time, Great, Nothing

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'
Demetri Martin

Nice, Someone, Hell

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov

Time, Forward, May

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Jesus, Suffering, Christ

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sense, Discipline, Ability

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
Honore de Balzac

Two, Child, Image

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere

Love, Marriage, Often

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.
Linford Christie

Diet, Exercise, Lifestyle

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
James Allen

Good, Bad, Thoughts

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Edward Dahlberg

Greatest, Soul, Ambition

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