Prunes Quotes

• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

  Charles Dickens

  Papa, Literature, Potatoes

  Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

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• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Perfectly Good, Cynical

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• Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Art

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

  Groucho Marx

  Art, Hands, Water

  "Fictional character:". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

  Henri Matisse

  Tree, Intuition, Natural Instinct

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• Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Misunderstood, East, Orientalism

  "The Ballad of East and West" st. 1 (1892)

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• A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Eye, People, Tree

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• If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

  Rick Warren

  Impact, Focus, Trying

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.30, Zondervan

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• The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Apples, Hens, Never Trust

  George R.R. Martin (2011). “A Dance With Dragons Complete Edition (Two in One) (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)”, p.67, HarperCollins UK

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• Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.

  Confucius

  Funny, Life, Running

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• ...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

  E. M. Forster

  Food, Cooking, Spirit

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• There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Thee

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.345

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• According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.

  Morey Amsterdam

  Men, Twenties, Statistics

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• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

  William James

  Lying, Men, Differences

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.52, University of Illinois Press

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• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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• Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP

  Walt Disney

  Smell, Mailman, Wells

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• Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need

  Margaret Stohl

  Squirrels, Hands, Needs

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• God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.

  Christine Caine

  Growth, Expansion, Seasons

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Apr 30, 2017

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• Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

  Johnny Carson

  Happiness, Doctors, Juice

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• Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

  Bob Hope

  Song, Wine, Juice

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• That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

  Andy Warhol

  Pits, Fruit, Reason

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• At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Grandchildren, Years

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• American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.

  R. W. Apple

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

  James Wright

  Struggle, Book, Writing

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• I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

  Woody Guthrie

  Moon, Light, Dust

  Song: Pastures Of Plenty

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