We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
A table a chair a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Nothing great 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.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.