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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

By the fruits which it bears is the tree known.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.