The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. - Cyrano de Bergerac
Let them enjoy their Eden while they can; though there's plenty of apples, I fear, on the tree yet, Mr Lawford. - Walter de la Mare
What wondrous life in this I leadRipe apples drop about my head - Andrew Marvell
When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't do so well with marriage. I don't think you've begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone & here's what I know about you: You have so much love to give! But I feel like you're all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, "Where are the apples? - Elizabeth Berg
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. - Dorothy Parker
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. - Audrey Hepburn
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. - Leonard Michaels
By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information. - Nick Flynn
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life. - Dorothy Parker
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. - Stephen Jay Gould
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw