1.
All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong
2.
Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.
Seraphim of Sarov
5.
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.
Virginia Woolf
6.
When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
John Dryden
7.
Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
Harriet Tubman
8.
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
9.
The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.
Meister Eckhart
10.
The stars are pears
that no one can reach,
even for a wedding.
Perhaps for a death.
Anne Sexton
11.
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
Kurt Vonnegut
12.
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.
Roald Dahl
13.
Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
David Duchovny
14.
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
Robert Graves
15.
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
Katharine Hepburn
16.
'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
Mary J. Blige
18.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Horace
21.
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