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.



Showing results 51 to 100 of 365


An ass does not appreciate fruit compote.

An old banana leaf was once young and green.

An orange never bears a lime.

And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.
Francois de Malherbe

Anyone can count the number of seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller

Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better.

Are you nuts?

As the tree, so the fruit.

As the tree, so the fruit; as the mistress, so the maid.

As they went on Bilbo looked from side to side for something to eat; but the blackberries were still only in flower, and of course there were no nuts, not even hawthorn-berries.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
Jim Davis

Avoid suspicion: when walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't tie your shoe.

Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.

Be a pineapple, stand tall, wear a crown, be sweet.
(unknown author)

Beautiful grapes often make poor wine.

Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.

Beneath these green mountains where spring rules the year, the irbarbutus and loquat in season appear, and feasting on lychee, 300 a day, I shouldn't mind staying eternally here.
Su Shih

Better a handful of dry dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.

Better an apple pie than apple blossom.

Big trees cast more shadow than fruit.

Bitter fruit will fall before the ripe.

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Bible
Source: Psalms 52:8

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
Fred Allen

Color is the fruit of life.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell.

Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves.

Different men have different opinions; some prefer apples, some onions.

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.
Bible
Source: Deuteronomy 22:9

Dogs don't like bananas, but can't bear to think chickens eat them.

Don't call me a little olive until you've picked me.

Don't expect a cherry tree from an acorn.

Don't marry a girl who wants strawberries in January.

Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves.

Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates.

Don't upset the apple cart.

Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.
William Butler
About strawberry.

Durian: tastes like heaven ... smells like hell.

Eat coconuts while you have teeth.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.

Elm trees have beautiful branches but hardly ever bear fruit.

Encountering a fallen Durian.
Good luck.

Even without drumbeats, banana leaves dance.

Every cider apple has a worm.

Every fresh banana leaf should eventually become a dry banana leaf.

Every raisin contains a pip.

Everything is not all peaches and cream.

Except the vine, there is no plant which bears a fruit of as great importance as the olive.
Pliny

Fifty lemons are a load for one person, but for fifty persons they are perfume.


Previous 50 Next 50

Other collections of proverbs and quotes are about agriculture, flowers, cereals and vegetables.

Please send a message if you know similar quotes or proverbs.

1 thought on “Proverbs and Quotes about Fruits”

  1. 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

    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.”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Scroll to Top