Children Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.”

— Marcus Aurelius

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

— William Shakespeare

“The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had…

— Rupert Thomson

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of…

— Sylvia Plath

“Sitti knows that modern-day wars are fought over simple things, like the length and fit of a shirt—the shorter the sleeve, the greater the…

— Sadiqua Hamdan

“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

“From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a…

— Sylvia Plath

“This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.”

— Alan Furst

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

— John Heywood

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. [...] I saw myself sitting in the crotch…

— Sylvia Plath

“The Ripe Fig Now that You live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images, which have enchanted…

— Rumi

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a…

— Sylvia Plath