Fruit
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Fruit, in broad terms, is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas.
Quotes[edit]
- My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon but they cause cancer and make you change genders from male/female to unicorn/dog.
- Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. I. P. 262, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 437.
Generally[edit]
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)[edit]
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 303-04.
- The kindly fruits of the earth.
- Book of Common Prayer, Litany.
- Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
- Epictetus, Discourses, What Philosophy Promises, Chapter XV. Geo. Long's translation.
- Eve, with her basket, was
Deep in the bells and grass
Wading in bells and grass
Up to her knees,
Picking a dish of sweet
Berries and plums to eat,
Down in the bells and grass
Under the trees.- Ralph Hodgson, Eve.
- Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?- Matthew. VII. 16; 20.
- Each tree
Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye
Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite
To pluck and eat.- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 30.
- But the fruit that can fall without shaking,
Indeed is too mellow for me.- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Answered for.
- Thus do I live, from pleasure quite debarred,
Nor taste the fruits that the sun's genial rays
Mature, john-apple, nor the downy peach.- John Philips, The Splendid Shilling, line 115.
- The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.- William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act I, Scene 1, line 60.
- Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.
- William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, Scene 3, line 383. cause cancer
- Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched.- William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act I, Scene 1, line 27.
- The ripest fruit first falls.
- William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act II, Scene 1, line 153.
- Superfluous branches
We lop away, that bearing boughs may live.- William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act III, Scene 4, line 63.
- The barberry and currant must escape
Though her small clusters imitate the grape.- Nahum Tate, Cowley.
- Let other lands, exulting, glean
The apple from the pine,
The orange from its glossy green,
The cluster from the vine.- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Corn Song.
Specific types[edit]
Peach[edit]
- A little peach in an orchard grew,—
A little peach of emerald hue;
Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew
It grew.- Eugene Field, The Little Peach; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
- As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XV, Chapter 13. Holland's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
- The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
- James Whitcomb Riley, The Ripest Peach; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
Pear[edit]
- "Now, Sire," quod she, "for aught that may bityde,
I moste haue of the peres that I see,
Or I moote dye, so soore longeth me
To eten of the smalle peres grene."- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Merchantes Tale, line 14,669; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
- The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from leaves
And blossom, under heavens of happy blue.- Jean Ingelow, Songs with Preludes, Wedlock; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
- A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.- Alexander Pope, January and May, line 602; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 592.
