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Fig Quotes & Sayings

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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain

Salad of baby spinach, artichoke hearts, and slices of fig, drizzled with olive oil and salt and a little fresh lemon juice, — Adriana Trigiani

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

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes. — Bethany McLean

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

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society. — Brigitte Bardot

I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description. — Michael Carbonaro

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

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — James Russell Lowell

I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else. — Yotam Ottolenghi

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. It — Sylvia Plath

A fig for those by law protected!
Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest! — Robert Burns

Breathe in. She didn't give a fig what other people thought! Breathe out. Rubbish. She gave a whole fig tree. — Liane Moriarty

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise. — John Eldredge

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight. — Jane Grigson

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe! — John Heywood

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. — Timothy Leary

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

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you. — Larry McMurtry

We have been careless with our pie repertoire. The demise of apple-pear pie with figs and saffron and orengeado pies are tragic losses. — Janet Clarkson

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information. — Ralph Nader

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that. — Thomas Jefferson

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. — Paracelsus

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. — George F. Kennan

Summertime in the french countryside is the smell of ripening fig trees and the taste of wild blackberries. — Vicki Archer

The Psalmist believed in a personal God, and knew nothing of that modern pantheism which is nothing more than atheism wearing a fig leaf. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve! — Brian Regan

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

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths. — Martin Luther

The fig leaf garments of good works will never do! Faith in the blood of Christ is the only righteousness we can claim. — Ervin N. Hershberger

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

After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps' nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking "Uh-oh. — Fannie Flagg

Bertie's my name and flirting's my game, I've an eye for every girl. Don't give a fig! I have a little chat, then give 'em a pat, — Jacqueline Wilson

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

When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Second Fig
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity. — Paul-Ludwig Landsberg

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

Adam and Eve covered their privates with fig leaves; the first Indians covered their privates with their tiny hands. — Sherman Alexie

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

Redwyne does not give a fig, he thought, but Rowan looks fit to gag. — George R R Martin

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means. — William Hazlitt

The conscience of my elusive race gives not a fig for me, baby. But I endure, if you know what I mean. — Richard Farina

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG — Charles Bukowski

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

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King

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. — Rupert Thomson

Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. — William Shakespeare

I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much. — Yotam Ottolenghi

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. — Johnny Hunt

Cell-specific lectin Ulex europaeus agglutinin as observed by fluorescence microscopy (Fig.1) — Anonymous