APPLES QUOTES III

quotations about apples

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An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidden fruit.

JENNY HVAL

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The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent. The walker is frequently tempted to turn and linger near some more than usually handsome one, whose blossoms are two-thirds expanded. How superior it is in these respects to the pear, whose blossoms are neither colored nor fragrant!

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck.

NORA ROBERTS

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If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.

LUCY LARCOM

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There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.

AMERICAN PROVERB

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The Blossoms and leaves in plenty
From the apple tree fall each day;
The merry breezes approach them,
And with them merrily play.

HEINRICH HEINE

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When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.

VERA NAZARIAN

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The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

W.G. BENHAM

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What plant we in this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,
For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,
We plant with the apple tree.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

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As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

KING SOLOMON

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All the evil in the world was brought in by means of an apple

MEDIEVAL PROVERB

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While tumbling down the turbid stream,
Lord love us, how we apples swim!

DAVID MALLET

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream.

MARK TWAIN

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The apple blossoms' shower of pearl,
Though blent with rosier hue,
As beautiful as woman's blush--
As evanescent too.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

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Out in the ground, I'll put my seeds
And an apple tree will grow
And in that tree soon will be apples
Red or gold with stars and seeds and apple trees
For people, birds, bears and bees
For months, for years, for centuries
And on and on it goes you see
And on and on it goes

ELLIS PAUL

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Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome.

STEPHEN J. GOULD

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If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

MICHAEL POLLAN

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