Fruits have been an inspiration for many proverbs and quotes. Please enjoy this collection of proverbs and quotes about fruits.
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Fine fruit will have flies about it.
Flower of this purple dye,William Shakespeare
Hit with Cupid's archery,
Sink in apple of his eye.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1590
For an apple and an egg.
For every grape a hundred wasps.
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
Forbidden fruit is sweetest.
From little date seeds, great things are born.
Fruit should pay for the welfare of leaves.
Fruits of the same tree have different tastes; children of the same mother have various qualities.
Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first.
Give an apple to the little ones, a book to the old.
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Grapes are eaten one by one.
Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.
Grapes picked too early don't even make good vinegar.
Great trees give more shade than fruit.
Half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one.
Half figs, half raisins.
Handsome apples are sometimes sour.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.Frank Lloyd Wright
He ate one fig and he thought the autumn had come.
He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
Description of Tom Bombadil
He has fallen from the donkey, but has found a date.
He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.
He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: North and South
He nibbled a bit of sorrel, and he drank from a small mountain-stream that crossed the path, and he ate three wild strawberries that he found on its bank, but it was not much good.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
He on whose head we would break a coconut never stands still.
He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree.
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.Thomas Fuller
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
He who eats cherries with gentlemen risks getting the pips in his nose.
He who likes cherries soon learns to climb.
He who plants a coconut tree plants vessels and clothing, food and drink, a habitation for himself and a heritage for his children.
He who selects coconut with great care ends up getting a bad coconut.
He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, And he who cares for his master will be honored.Bible
Source: Proverbs 27:18
He who would enjoy the fruit must not spoil the blossoms.
He's hardly a sour grape, yet behaves like a raisin.
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.Bible
Hold out the olive branch.
Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes? Only two things that money can't buy. That's true love and home grown tomatoes.John Denver
Homes among homes and grapevines among grapevines.
I don't go for the nouvelle approach-serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.Jeff Smith
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Abraham Lincoln
I have tied my goat to a jujube tree.
I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit – Chapter 10 – A warm welcome
I know how to spell banana, but I don't know when to stop.(unknown author)
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.Mary Cassatt
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.Pablo Neruda
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.Bible
Source: Song of Solomon 8:2
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A good tree bears good fruit.
A good tree brings forth good fruit.
Jesus Christ said this before William Shakespeare please look up Matthew 7:16-20
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16 By their fruits you will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? 17 Likewise, every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. 19 Every tree not producing fine fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Really, then, by their fruits you will recognize those men.”