Fruit
Appearance
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 inYorkshirewas so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from alemonbut they causecancerand make you change genders from male/female to unicorn/dog.
- Sydney Smith,Lady Holland's Memoir,Vol. I. P. 262, reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 437.
Generally
[edit]Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922)
[edit]Quotes reported inHoyt'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]- 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 inHoyt'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 ofPersiafirst.
- Pliny the Elder,Natural History,Book XV, Chapter 13. Holland's translation; reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 591.
- The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
- James Whitcomb Riley,The Ripest Peach;reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 591.
- "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 inHoyt'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 inHoyt'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 inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 592.
- Two-thirds of theapplesand nine-tenths of the pears that we eat are imported, not to mention two thirds of thecheese.And that is a disgrace. From the apple that dropped onIsaac Newton’s head to the orchards of nursery rhymes, this fruit has always been a part ofBritain.I want our children to grow up enjoying the taste of British apples as well asCornishsardines,Norfolkturkey,Melton Mowbraypork pies,Wensleydalecheese,Herefordshirepears and of courseblack pudding.