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«I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
fig, fig leaf, leaf, Other side, price tag, tag, tags, tag on, The other side, turned
«He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.»
«Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: / So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.»
«Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! / Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.»
«In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.»
«He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.»
«Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; / Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.»
«He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.»
«I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.»
«I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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Simplicity
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complexity, fig, Other side, simplicity, The other side
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