Fruit Quotes - Page 10

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.

You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

I’ve never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I’d have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem…It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.

Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.