Proverbs and Quotes about Fruits

Fruits have been an inspiration for many proverbs and quotes. Please enjoy this collection of proverbs and quotes about fruits.



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A bad tree does not yield good apples.

A black plum is as sweet as a white.

A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.

A coconut shell full of water is a sea to an ant.

A coconut shell full of water is an ocean to an ant.

A cooked tomato is like a cooked oyster: ruined.
Andre Simon

A dead cherry tree will not blossom.

A fig tree with figs turned out to be a ruin with mosquitoes.
A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.

A fruit tree that grows in a dung heap will certainly blossom.

A fruit-bearing tree is known by its flowers.

A good tree bears good fruit.

A good tree brings forth good fruit.

A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath.
William Shakespeare

A grape that sees another gets ripe.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Benny Green
A large spider sat in the middle of a frosted web in the brambles.
J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer's garden.

A man only takes rosella to the bush to plant one time.
A proverb from the Soninke people of West Africa: Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau. [Yugo do Sangume wa telle gunne ta banne ya]. The proverb is used in contexts when something only needs to be done once.

A melon forced off its vine is not sweet.

A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit.

A pear tree cannot bear an apple.

A pear will fall to its root.

A pear will never fall into a closed mouth.
A ripe pear is more likely to fall in the shit than onto the clean ground.

A rotten apple spoils the barrel.
A bad person can have a bad influence on the group they belong to.

A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.

A strange land is a bilberry; one's own land is a strawberry.

A strawberry blossom will not moisten dry bread.

A strawberry blossom will not sweeten dry bread.

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