Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. Groucho Marx
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. Frank Lloyd Wright
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. Henri Matisse
She came in with coffee and biscuits at half-past eleven with her mouth pursed up very prunes and prisms, and would hardly speak to me. Agatha Christie
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, all very good words for the lips,especially prunes and prism. Charles Dickens
We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want... some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end. Don Marquis