Ranging from strawberries to bananas, fruits come in all shapes, sizes, tastes, and colors but have one thing in common, all of these fruits are beneficial for the human body.
We all love to eat fruits, whether it is sweet mangoes or juicy watermelons, and in the modern-day often post about the same on our social media handles as well. Eating fruits in an ideal amount keep your diet balanced and the body healthy.
These fruit quotes talk about the serious impact of fruits often mentioned in the biblical works and the various quotes and sayings which employ fruit as a metaphor.
At the same time, you will come across some funny and entertaining fruit quotes. In the earlier ages, a large section of human civilization, as well as the animal kingdom, was solely dependent on fruits as their primary source of food.
Scroll down to read these renowned fruit quotes to take a look at the implication of this vitamin and mineral-rich food.
Witty And Funny Fruit Quotes
Fruits have often been used as metaphors in several funny incidences and comics.
"I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you’d be like… Huh? What the hell is this? But if it’s in a fruit basket, you’re like… this is nice!"
- Demetri Martin.
"Be like a pineapple. Stand tall, be sweet, and always wear a crown."
- Unknown*
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"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash."
- Josh Billings.
"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."
- Fred Allen.
"A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits."
- E. Lockhart.
"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."
- Mike Tyson.
"Fruit… it’s just God showing off… Look at all the colors I know!"
- Dylan Moran.
"There is far too much common nonsense, and not nearly enough uncommon sense about fruit."
- Mango Wodzak.
"Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face."
- Enrico Caruso.
"A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do."
- P. J. O'Rourke.
"Time flies like an arrow – but fruit flies like a banana."
- Terry Wogan.
"I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off."
- Mitch Hedberg.
"It's looks like someone slapped you in the face with a fruit roll-up or something!"
- Daniel Bryan.
"Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen."
- Unknown*
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"Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today."
- Alber Elbaz.
"Plant the trees just for beauty, If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver."
- Debashish Mridha.
“Every time you eat a fruit for the first time that year you need to make a wish.”
- André Aciman.
"In ancient Greek mythology, the pomegranate was also known as the 'fruit of the dead'."
- Maria Benardis.
"Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn’t bite in it until it’s ripe."
- Unknown*
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
- Galileo Galilei.
"If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear."
- Mae Martin.
"An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach."
- George du Maurier.
Fruit Quotes For A Healthy Lifestyle
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(Fruits are considered to be an indispensable part of a healthy lifestyle primarily owing to the nutrients they contain.)
Most fruits contain large amounts of water alongside an abundance of vitamins, minerals, and other healthy nutrients.
"I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal."
- Natalie Morales.
"During difficult times, it’s best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake, and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes."
- Karen Salmansohn.
"Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they’re not being yelled at."
- Firoozeh Dumas.
"After a workout, you definitely have to have a protein shake. I drink my six-pound whey protein all the time, too. I throw some fruit in there – strawberries, blueberries – with some peanut butter and banana, and it gives you all the recovery you need."
- Rob Gronkowski.
"To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It’s often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It’s the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete."
- Andrew Luck.
"Apples, grapes… any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day."
- Kristin Chenoweth.
"My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest."
- Magic Johnson.
"Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise."
- Linford Christie.
"I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables."
- Clint Eastwood.
"We're gonna get weaker. That's already happened. They used to say, you know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now they're saying eat five fruits. That's evidence. You can't argue with that."
- Karl Pilkington.
"I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day."
- Paul Lynde.
"Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, boosting the immune system, and acting as a guard for the liver and brain."
- Michael Greger.
"I eat vegetarian at home, so I always have yogurt and milk, eggs, whole wheat bread, whole grains. Lots of vegetables and fruit. Cereals and oatmeal. That type of thing."
- Maye Musk.
"When god created the earth he created fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds and herbs to nourish us and to heal us."
- Maria Benardis.
"In the morning, I always eat fruit and yogurt with cereal. And for lunch and dinner, I always have vegetables as a side."
- Vittoria Ceretti.
"A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar."
- Gene Tunney.
"When one consumes a diet high in fruit and vegetables and occasionally eats deep fried food it is unlikely to have a negative effect on the body."
- Maria Benardis.
"Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions."
- Marilu Henner.
"I always say: a run in the morning is like eating a fruit a day - it chases he doctor away. It is good for your mind."
- Eliud Kipchoge.
"I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do."
- Vivienne Westwood.
"I always have apples and fruit in the house. It's easier to eat something healthy if it's within reach. I also have yogurt, cheese and crackers, and raw almonds."
- Martina McBride.
Short Fruit Quotes
These fruit quotes deliver exceptional humor, wisdom, and the health implication of consuming fruits but in a concise manner.
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness."
- Galatians 5:22.
"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures."
- Luc De Clapiers.
"The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen."
- Alexander Pope.
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
- Mother Teresa.
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
- Aristotle.
"Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves."
- Periander.
"The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground."
- William Shakespeare.
"Where there is no fruit, there may be no root."
- Sam Storms.
"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."
- Henry David Thoreau.
"No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees."
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
"Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?"
- George Orwell.
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
- John Stuart Mill.
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
- Moliere.
"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
- Democritus.
"I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up."
- Mary Cassatt.
"Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life."
- Helen Keller.
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
- Albert Einstein.
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."
- Jean Arp.
"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."
- Samuel Butler.
"One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul."
- Henry David Thoreau.
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
- Khalil Gibran.
"Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit."
- Suzy Kassem.
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
- Aristotle.
Fruit Quotes That Are Full Of Wisdom
To your surprise, some of these fruit quotes carry essential life lessons which prove to be fruitful in the long run.
"Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious."
- Andrew Jackson Downing.
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."
- Brian O'Driscoll.
"While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster."
- Abigail Van Buren.
"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them."
- Thomas Kinkade.
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
- Saint Basil.
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing."
- John 15:5.
"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."
- James Allen.
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
"Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history."
- Amilcar Cabral.
"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."
- Anton Chekhov.
"If we had no faults and no faults we had, we would live with fruit and in fruit and be pulp of fruit and live forever."
- George Bernard Shaw.
"Think the tree that bears nutrition: though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition. So give all the love you have. Do not hold any in reserve. What is given is not lost; it shall return."
- Kamand Kojouri.
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel.
"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."
- Joseph Campbell.
"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness."
- Stephen Fry.
"If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct."
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin.
"The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit."
- Fabienne Fredrickson.
"Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit."
- Sarah Parish.
"There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe."
- Pubilius Syrus.
"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
- William Ellery Channing.
"The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work."
- Martin Luther.
"On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute."
- Abraham Lincoln.
"In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree."
- T. Harv Eker.
"The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can."
- Paul Kurtz.
"As he who wishes the best fruit must pay attention to the land, so must the greatest attention be paid to the soul it fit is to produce fruits worthy of its nature."
- Pythagoras.
"Do not rush to judge someone unless his/her fruits reveal the truth. However, don't forget; mostly, it's not the fault of the tree to produce bitter fruits. Sometimes, the soil determines that; blame the source! Deal with the soil! Don't deal with the tree!"
- Israelmore Ayivor.
"If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past."
- Bodhidharma.
"What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter."
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
"Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren."
- Edwin Louis Cole.
