Answers Quote by Epictetus

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig.…

— Epictetus

“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a…

— Epictetus

Fig season is a joyous time of year for me. Back in my Paris days, the markets would be filled with piles of these…

— Rachel Khoo

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do…

— Yann Martel

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the…

— Elizabeth David

I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango.…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open it, so…

— dh lawrence

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…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

— William Shakespeare

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…

— Henry Austin Dobson

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only…

— Edwin Louis Cole