In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would…

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

— Suzanne Collins

I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

I can eat peaches, and I can eat pears. *catchy jingle* He can eat peaches! He can eat pears! He's a manly man!

— Mac Cheesits

The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose,…

— Bertrand Russell

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

— Alexander Pope

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and…

— Yann Martel

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central…

— Margaret Atwood

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…

— Arnold Schoenberg

The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic…

— Jerry Spinelli

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

— Anonymous

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

— Katharine Hepburn

After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a pear tree, I…

— Marilu Henner

The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half…

— Yoko Ono

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is,…

— Robert Frost

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost…

— Rebecca Wells