(17 quotes found)
“O excellent! I love long life better than figs.”
William Shakespeare
“There is always some fig leaf being used.”
Gary Hart
“And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.”
Bible
“I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.”
Saul Bellow
“No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
Epictetus
“I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.”
Menander
“All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.”
“This is a fig leaf. It's an attempt by the Chinese to do the least amount possible,”
Peter Morici
“One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.”
