I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King Copy Share Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry Copy Share Image
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness,… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig… — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly.… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two.… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
