Quotes about Apples
There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
— Henry David Thoreau
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
— Song of Solomon 2:5
I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
— Song of Solomon 7:8
It was sufficiently late in the year for the orchards to be ruddy with ripe apples; and in a few places the hop-pickers were already at work. I thought it all extremely beautiful, and made up my mind to sleep among the hops that night: imagining some cheerful companionship in the long perspectives of poles, with the graceful leaves twining
— Charles Dickens
The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider.
— Beverly Lewis
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
— Henry David Thoreau
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... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.
— Mark Twain
His banner over me was love.Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
— Anonymous
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
— Henry David Thoreau