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 SimonA 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 ShakespeareA grape that sees another gets ripe.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Benny GreenA large spider sat in the middle of a frosted web in the brambles.
J.K. RowlingSource: 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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