100 Fig Quotes
Following is our list of fig quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about the bell jar.
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Short Fig Quotes
- One eats figs whilst the other pays. — Albanian Proverbs
- Sharing the figs can leave you with none at all — Greek Proverbs
- If you have figs in your knapsack, everyone will want to be your friend. — Albanian Proverbs
- Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths. — Martin Luther
- Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens
- Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. — Epictetus
- A fig for a care, a fig for a woe! — John Heywood
- The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain
- For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — James Russell Lowell
- Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. — Timothy Leary
The Bell Jar Quotes
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. — Sylvia Plath
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath
I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. — Sylvia Plath
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? — Sylvia Plath
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. — Sylvia Plath
My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world. — Josephine de Beauharnais
Fig Fruit Quotes
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. — Epictetus
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
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 and overplus - More had not Alcinous! — Henry Austin Dobson
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example. — Samuel Smiles
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand. — Richard De Bury
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. — Epictetus
The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were accountable for failing to bring forth fruit, so too are we accountable for the fruits we bring forth. — Eric D. Huntsman
Fig Tree Quotes
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean. — Elizabeth David
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return. — Hal Lindsey
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. — Sylvia Plath
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree. — Colin Tudge
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth. — George Washington
Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years. — Frances Mayes
Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags! — Thom Hartmann
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 to an innocent tree, wither it instantly? — Yann Martel
Funny Dog Quotes
Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?" — Anthony Griffin
According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider man's best friend is his dog. — Jay Leno
Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone. — Lenny Bruce
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle
My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language." — Morey Amsterdam
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. — William S. Burroughs
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity. — Margaret Halsey
Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog — Li Ching-Yuen
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman. — Albert Einstein
Bible Quotes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. — Theodore Roosevelt
If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake. — Ruth Graham
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.” — Charles Spurgeon
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. — Martin Luther
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. — Soren Kierkegaard
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. — Robert E. Lee
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. — Isaac Newton
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst. — Martin Luther
People Writing About Fig
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Albanian Proverbs |
109 | 5 |
 Greek Proverbs |
176 | 1 |
 Martin Luther |
937 | 22640 |
 Charles Dickens |
1001 | 11529 |
 Epictetus |
476 | 5978 |
 John Heywood |
144 | 440 |
More Fig Quotes
Better a handful of dried figs and content with that, than to own the gate of peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel. — Moroccan Proverbs
I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts. — Marquis De Sade
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee. — Jonathan Swift
Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. — S. Parkes Cadman
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering. — Hilda Doolittle
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry
O excellent! I love long life better than figs. — William Shakespeare
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity. — Paul Ludwig Landsberg
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. — Saul Bellow
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 thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement. — Rainer Maria Rilke
If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do. — Xenophanes
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary
Shape is a good part of the fig's delight. — Jane Grigson
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness. — Joe Hill
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. — Menander
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. — Paracelsus
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec. — Joe Hart
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King
National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information. — Ralph Nader
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs. — William Shakespeare
I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it. — Nick Frost
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