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

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
Paul Muldoon

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

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.
John Hull

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Peter Ustinov

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

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
Martin Fleischmann

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
William Law

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
Fay Wray

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.
Robert Fortune

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
Thomas Dekker

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

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
Russell B. Long

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

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.
Johnny Weissmuller