Fig Quotes
59 quotes by 49 authors
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I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
— Brigitte Bardot
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to…
— Jonathan Swift
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Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form…
— S. Parkes Cadman
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Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah…
— Thom Hartmann
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a…
— Lucian
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
— Florence King
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May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
— George Washington
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
— Epictetus
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
— Charles Dickens
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I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement,…
— George Washington
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I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!
— Brian Regan
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The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.
— Mark Lowry
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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
— Mark Twain
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April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds…
— Robert Loveman
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Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with…
— Homer
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Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of…
— Hermann Hesse
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are…
— Richard de Bury
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Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.
— Jane Grigson
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Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.
— Martin Luther
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Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
— Timothy Leary
Who Wrote These Fig Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 59 Fig Quotes, led by these top contributors: