A pear is a failed apple.

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.

I love pears. Most definitely - it's a fact.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.

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

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

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.

Make one day a mono-meal. This means, choose just one fruit and have it as much as you want. Apples, pears, or anything in season are great for mono-meals.

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

Don't forget that fruit can be cooked - think of baked apples, poached pears and grilled pineapple. But if you like drinking fruit, blending will preserve more nutrition and fibre than juicing.

I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.

Quince may resemble pears and apples, but unlike their fruit brethren, raw quince are inedibly tannic and sour. This means you do have to cook them, but the transformation is dramatic, and well worth your efforts.

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

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