Sayings about Branches
A man without a woman is a tree without leaves and branches. ~ Corsican Proverb
The monkey knows which branch to swing on. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
The trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
No one can climb a tree with no branches. ~ Finnish Proverbs
A fallen blossom never returns to the branch. ~ Japanese Proverbs
No matter how tall the tree is, its leaves will always fall to the ground. ~ Chinese Proverb
Woe to him who sits upon a branch. ~ Croatian Proverb
Often a branch is broken off the tree by the one who has rested in its shadow. ~ Myanmar Proverb
The nuts from a palm tree don’t fall without dragging a few leaves with it. ~ Congolese Proverb
God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.~ Turkish Proverb
You shake in vain the branch that bears no fruit.~ Samoan Proverb
A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch — both cannot be saved. ~ Indian Proverb
Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves. ~ Greek Proverbs
Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots. ~ Malawian Proverb
When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches.~ Dutch Proverb
The branch that bears the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first.~ Samoan Proverbs
He who is afraid of the leaves must not go into the wood. ~ Dutch Proverb
Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree. ~ Dutch Proverbs
A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.~ Chinese Proverb
The branch is seldom better than the stem.~ Danish Proverbs
If there is no reason, why would the tempua bird nest on the low branches? ~ Malay Proverbs
Men make the earth black from green leaves. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned. ~ United States Proverbs
Elm trees have beautiful branches but hardly ever bear fruit. ~ Spanish Proverbs
A young branch can be straightened, a mature one breaks. ~ Filipino Proverbs
Truth has no branches. ~ Indian Proverbs
The butterfly who settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it. ~ Armenian Proverbs
Tall branches are apt to be broken.~ Korean Proverbs
Quotations about Branches
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. ~ James Otis
Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.~ John B. S. Haldane
Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch. ~ Baha’u’llah
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. ~ Frank Zappa
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. ~ William Law
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.~ Victor Hugo
When one has taken root, one puts out branches.~ Jules Verne
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.~ John Leonard
Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. ~ William Allingham
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~ e. e. cummings
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.~ Thomas Jefferson
I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.~ Jim Murray
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. ~ Albert Einstein
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.~ Frances Cornford
Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.~ Margaret Atwood
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.~ Victor Hugo
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.~ Ann Plato
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. ~ Dorothea Dix
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.~ Bible
If you look closely at a tree you’ll notice it’s knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. ~ Matthew Fox
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.~ Author Unknown
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ Henry David Thoreau
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. ~ James Stephens
Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots. ~ David Novak
