quotations about apples
The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.
W.G. BENHAM
Proverbs
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
A New England Girlhood
An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
The apple was early so important, and so generally distributed, that its name traced to its root in many languages signifies fruit in general.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"Wild Apples", The Atlantic Monthly, November 1862
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
Face the Fire
Still sittin' under the apple tree
With nobody else but me
DORIS DAY
"I'm Still Sitting Under the Apple Tree"
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
Book of Songs
It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidden fruit.
JENNY HVAL
Perlebryggeriet
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
Autobiography of Mark Twain
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
Songs of Solomon
The apple blossoms' shower of pearl,
Though blent with rosier hue,
As beautiful as woman's blush--
As evanescent too.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Apple Blossoms
There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.
AMERICAN PROVERB
If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.
MICHAEL POLLAN
attributed, The Upward Spiral Workbook
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
The Planting of the Apple Tree
All the evil in the world was brought in by means of an apple
MEDIEVAL PROVERB
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
"Wild Apples", The Atlantic Monthly, November 1862
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
"The Star Inside the Apple"
While tumbling down the turbid stream,
Lord love us, how we apples swim!
DAVID MALLET
Tyburn
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
"Evolution as Fact and Theory", Discover, May 1981