Figs Quotes

62 quotes by 55 authors

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
Shape is a good part of the fig's delight. — Jane Grigson
Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths. — Martin Luther
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. — Timothy Leary
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right to… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and… — Henry Austin Dobson
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up… — Sylvia Plath
A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… — Sylvia Plath
A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will… — Philemon
There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon… — Edward Lear
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 dolls from China,which… — Rumi
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. — Saul Bellow
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A fig for a care, a fig for a woe! — John Heywood
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces… — Hilda Doolittle
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — James Russell Lowell
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like… — D. H. Lawrence
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--… — Franklin P. Adams
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put… — Hal Lindsey

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