APPLES QUOTES II

quotations about apples

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

J.K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


It is more pleasant to pluck an apple from the branch than to take one from a graven dish.

OVID

Epistulae ex Ponto


Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.

WILLIAM WALLACE HARNEY

Adonais


The apples lie scattered here and there, each under its own tree.

VIRGIL

Eclogues


She is lost with an apple, and won with a nut.

JOHN HEYWOOD

Proverbs


By the middle of July, green apples are so large as to remind us of coddling, and of the autumn. The sward is commonly strewed with little ones which fall, still-born, as it were--Nature thus thinning them for us.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"Wild Apples", The Atlantic Monthly, November 1862


An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

AMERICAN PROVERB

originated in the 1900s as a marketing slogan by growers concerned that the temperance movement would cut into sales of hard cider, the principal market for apples at the time


On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Winesburg, Ohio


Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.

WELSH PROVERB


Apples are thought to quench the flame of Venus, according to that old English saying, He that will not a wife wed, Must eat a cold apple when he goeth to bed, though some turn it to a contrary purpose.

THOMAS COGAN

Havens of Health


To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once,
Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent
Of that alluring fruit, urg'd me so keen.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost


Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore,
All ashes to the taste.

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

"What the Black Man Wants"


I have upset my apple-cart; I am done for.

LUCIAN

Pseudolus


It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"Wild Apples", The Atlantic Monthly, November 1862


There's a star inside my apple
I know it's hard to grapple
But if you cut it side to side
There's a star alone, no lie
And in my star inside my apple
Are sleepy little seeds
And in those seeds found in my star
Are could-be apple trees

ELLIS PAUL

"The Star Inside the Apple"


It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.

AIMEE BENDER

The Color Master


An apple may happen to be better given than eaten.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia


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

"Wild Apples", The Atlantic Monthly, November 1862


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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