Fig
A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
A small piece of tobacco.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
Figure; dress; array.
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Fig Quotations
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte Bardot
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.
Edwin Louis Cole
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.
Hal Lindsey
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
Freda Adler
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Menander
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
George F. Kennan
Fig Translations
fig in Danish is figen
fig in Dutch is vijg
fig in French is figue
fig in German is Feige
fig in Italian is vigliacco
fig in Norwegian is fikentre, fiken
fig in Portuguese is figo
fig in Spanish is higo
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