Entry 266

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
Anonymous

Truth flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx

Truth is a fruit that should not be picked until it is ripe.
Voltaire

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun


The land that had nourished him and had borne him fruit now turned against him and called him a fruit. Man, I hate land like that.
Jack Handy