Fruit Quotes - Page 29

• Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  B. C. Forbes

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Men

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• One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.

  William H. Gass

  Simple, Water, Eruption

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• The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing--if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Mind, Done

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• Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Weather, Tree

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• As a tree my sin stands
  To darken all lands;
  Death is the fruit it bore.

  Christina Rossetti

  Land, Tree, Sin

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Retirement, Tree, Highways

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• Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

  Richard Whately

  Flower, Years, Nuts

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.432

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• As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

  Richard Whately

  Faith, Flower, Good Work

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• the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

  Amelia Barr

  Life Is

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.373, Litres

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• If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.

  Humphry Davy

  Sweet, Flower, Blessed

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• He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Games

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.665, Simon and Schuster

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• Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Children, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• Since I retired to Cold Mountain I've lived by eating mountain fruits What is there to worry about? Life passes according to karma The months pass like a flowing stream Days and nights like sparks from flint Heaven and earth endlessly change While I sit happily among these cliffs

  Hanshan

  Karma, Night, Worry

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• Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Evil, Energy, Lasts

  "To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays (If Only This Could Be Said)". Book edited and translated by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine, 2001.

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• Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heart, Hands, Roots

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.61, Lulu.com

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• A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Character, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.269, Penguin

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• For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  White, Decision, Feelings

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 186), 1895.

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• Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul's roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Blessed, Roots

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 585), 1895.

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• If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

  Alphonse Karr

  Beauty, Ifs

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• Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Selfish, Reflection, Men

  Hippolyte Taine (1904). “History of English literature”

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• Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Silence, Saint, Tongue

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• Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Men, Garden, Roots

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• Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Literature, Leisure, Facts

  Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers.

  Christopher McDowell

  Flower, Dwelling Place, Tree

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• For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit.

  Paul Gillin

  Marketing, Casting, Lows

  Paul Gillin, Geoffrey A. Moore (2009). “The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media”, p.156, Linden Publishing

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