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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

We will eat the figs of our own tree, and the grapes of our own garden. — Anne Rice

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican. — Charles Evers

He understands that creating a meal means creating your own reality ... — Alice Waters

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today. — Bob Harper

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. — Edward Lear

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

Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking. — Nora Roberts

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

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Michael, you shall have some syrup of figs. — P.L. Travers

you have to play it out sometimes. — Charlaine Harris

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

My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out. — Jon Krakauer

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

Persistent work always brings a person successful results — Sunday Adelaja

Date rape is just plain moronic when you consider how slutty figs are — Josh Stern

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

O excellent! I love long life better than figs. — William Shakespeare

Blue!' she exclaimed. 'Violet blue. What are they made of?' 'Summer skies,' I said, 'and plums and figs, and the grape-blood of emperors.' 'No, — Vladimir Nabokov

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

It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families. — Hillary Clinton

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

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, If you want something to look interesting, don't light all of it. — Joe McNally

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. — Pauline Kael

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

Figs that drip with honey, sugar blown into curls and flowers. — Erin Morgenstern

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

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

Vile Father's brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs. — Lev Grossman

Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age. — Marcus Aurelius

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get. — Lisa Kleypas

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

Let us learn to see the beauty of life. Let us learn to appreciate and forgive. This is when we will find peace everywhere. — Debasish Mridha

This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs. — Alan Furst