Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves. [ Proverb ]

Making all futures fruits of all the past. [ Edwin Arnold ]

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. [ William Shakespeare ]

My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone. [ Byron ]

The flowers are gone when the fruits appear to ripen. [ Pope ]

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. [ St. Paul ]

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last. [ Bacon ]

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards. [ Barrow ]

We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our own industry. [ L'Estrange ]

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. [ Bryant ]

Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Religion is a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its roots and practical in its fruits. [ Amiel ]

Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness - that is, suffering in the bosom of others. [ Benthem ]

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. [ Vauvenargues ]

No part of diet, in any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, as good and well-ripened fruits. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Many believe the article of remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance or the fruits of holy life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The tree of the world hath its poisons, but beareth two fruits of exquisite flavor, the nectar of poetry and the society of noble men. [ Hitopadesa ]

The birds, great Nature's happy commoners, that haunt in woods, in meads, and flowery gardens, rifle the sweets and taste the choicest fruits. [ Rowe ]

The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. [ Hooker ]

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. [ Barrow ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents - flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. [ Emerson ]

Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre countenance of ordinary nature; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. [ Berz ]

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. [ Ruskin ]

Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.

How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]