Pears quotes

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
-- Alexander Pope

#Tree #Fruit #Pears
Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
-- David Duchovny

#Hurt #Feelings #Pears
there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.
-- Ethel M. Dell

#Tree #Arms #Pears
Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Men #Pears
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
-- Horace

#Pears
When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
-- John Dryden

#Autumn #Joy #Pears
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
-- Meridel Le Sueur

#Work #Together #Pears
No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Humorous #Shut Up #Pears

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