Figs Quotes

62 quotes by 55 authors

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society. — Brigitte Bardot
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
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
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
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
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't… — Kingsley Amis
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King
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
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.… — John Jay Chapman
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. — Epictetus
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite… — Elizabeth David
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
I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve! — Brian Regan
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry
Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a… — Frances Mayes
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain
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
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
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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