Top 55 Prune Quotes

#1. Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.

Marie Rutkoski

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#2. The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In

Italo Calvino

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#3. You must prune dead or dying wood.

Warren Giles

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#4. They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness

Catherynne M Valente

Prune Quotes #118755
#5. I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Ogden Nash

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#6. Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy?

William Zinsser

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#7. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

Rick Warren

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#8. The baby, as I had reason from experience to expect and had in fact prepared my bag for, suffers from dehydration. He's dried up like a prune. The treatment is simple and the results spectacular. Slip a needle in his scalp vein and hang a bottle of glucose

Walker Percy

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#9. Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,

Alison Gopnik

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#10. All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.

Ruth Pitter

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#11. God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

Agatha Christie

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#12. Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

John C. Maxwell

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#13. Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

Seth Godin

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#14. There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

William Shakespeare

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#15. Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Victor Hugo

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#16. The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.

Andrew J. Robinson

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#17. The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Robert Fulghum

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#18. That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

Andy Warhol

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#19. Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.'
That was a visual I didn't need

Margaret Stohl

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#20. Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

Quintilian

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#21. Many of our oldest family trees become a little diseased over time," he said as Bellatrix gazed at him, breathless and imploring. "You must prune yours, must you not, to keep it healthy? Cut away those parts that threaten the health of the rest.

J.K. Rowling

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#22. Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.

Brian Herbert

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#23. Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil; with enough revisions humans would eventually bring about the one version of history that was fully good.

Dexter Palmer

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#24. Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Donald Rumsfeld

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#25. Prune these alleged friends ruthlessly from your life. You need all the positive reinforcement you can get. You need friends who think you're fabulous, an angel in human shape, and a breath of springtime.

Cynthia Heimel

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#26. Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.

Red Buttons

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#27. Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

William James

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#28. Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom.

Feroz Bham

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#29. I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.

Rodney Dangerfield

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#30. Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

Bob Hope

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#31. According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.

Morey Amsterdam

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#32. You are sure that I would not be well advised to make certain excisions and eliminations? You do not think it would be a good thing to cut, to prune? I might, for example, delete the rather exhaustive excursus into the family life of the early Assyrians?

P.G. Wodehouse

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#33. Grace had called Ellen a dry little prune who'd be lucky to give it away for free disguised as a hat, let alone sell it or marry it off.

Lyndsay Faye

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#34. I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

James Wright

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#35. Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Tom Peters

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#36. You die a little inside every time you have joyless sex. Neurons prune back. The good in there withers. And some things never grow back.

Hugh Howey

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#37. Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

Libba Bray

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#38. If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God will invite you to abide more deeply with Him.

Bruce Wilkinson

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#39. The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

Michael Drayton

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#40. The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

Ramana Maharshi

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#41. Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

Johnny Carson

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#42. Writers are like gardeners - they have to prune to get to the beauty of their creation.

Lee Rene

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#43. This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

William Shakespeare

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#44. Dionysus invented wine, which so impressed his father Zeus that he promoted Dionysus to god. The guy who invented prune juice, by contrast, got sentenced to the Fields of Punishment.

Rick Riordan

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#45. Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.

Dave Barry

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#46. Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.

Ron Brackin

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#47. The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

George R R Martin

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#48. You know, I used to sweat sometimes when I was digging. My rheumatism would pull at my leg, and I would damn myself for a slave. And now, do you know, I'd like to spade and spade. It's beautiful work. A man is free when he is using a spade. And besides, who is going to prune my trees when I am gone?

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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#49. Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.
Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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#50. Tomorrow I'm going to mow the lawn and prune the trees, and after that I'll cook some stew and casseroles to put in the freezer. We'll be glad of them when we're busy gaining dominion over the world, and can't find time to cook.

Alex Gabriel

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#51. Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enough.

Margaret Atwood

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#52. Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

Caskie Stinnett

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#53. Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip

Sandra Dallas

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#54. I have these brownies that I make that are just a home run with my family. I make them with almond butter, prune puree, walnuts, cocoa powder and whole-wheat flour, and I like them because they're delicious, but they're also guilt-free.

Tia Mowry

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#55. What was the use of her being alive? Her heart was some desiccated thing: a prune, a fossil, a piece of clinker. Her mouth might as well be filled with ashes. It was all utterly hopeless and futile ...

Sarah Waters

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