Arabian Quote by Samuel Smiles

“Some plant wild fig trees near cultivated fig trees, and there are others who, to remedy the weakness of the productive fig tree of…

— Philip Schaff

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no…

— Anonymous

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

— William Langland

“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

“Every one follows his own bent. Man is like a tree. You’ve never quarrelled with a fig tree because it doesn’t bear cherries, have…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind…

— Epictetus

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

“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

“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

“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

“When you discover a beautiful tree with beautiful fruits, stop and pick the fruits, but don’t remain there, continue your walking till you yourself…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“A tree that bears much fruit honors the one who planted it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo