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

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater

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

Obedience is the fruit of faith.
Christina Rossetti

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

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.
Joe Slovo

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
Wallace Stevens

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.
Edwin Louis Cole

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

People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.
Michael Scott

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges Bataille

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Harold MacMillan

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
Francis Marion

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert

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

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller

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

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

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

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
Kenneth Scott Latourette