My melons are twisted every bleeding morning at about half…

Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

— Matsuo Basho

In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other

— Yosa Buson

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river…

— J. G. Farrell

As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.

— Jose Mourinho

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

— Barbra Streisand

Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip…

— Brad Wilkerson

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

— Andrew Marvell

The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got…

— Jack Kerouac

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to you corpse,…

— Walt Whitman

How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a…

— Herbert Schiller

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and…

— Nellie Bly

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush…

— Andrew Marvell

The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman…

— Matt Taibbi

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self…

— Jerry Spinelli