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Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

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.

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.

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns…It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it…If you want to see the difference between [the garden’s] contribution and the gardener’s, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our ‘decency and common sense’ show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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.

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.

Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.

While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

…the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can’t lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

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.

with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry – California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn’t been a queen of something before she’s twenty-one is a poor prune.

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

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

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.

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.

I’m taking Viagra and drinking prune juice. I don’t know if I’m coming or going.

The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th ‘one of them doth prune the others feather.

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.

I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.