Figs Quotes

Figs Quote of the day

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.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

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.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

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.

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

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?

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve.

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

Figs are delicious with soft cheese and ham, Toast is quite scrumptious with butter and jam, Eggs are improved by parsley and salt, But milkshakes are best with strawberries and malt.