There's small choice in rotten apples.

An apple resists being eaten. An apple is not eaten, it is conquered. The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to … kissing.

an apple a day keeps the docter away

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

How do you like them apples, you piece of shit?

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

892. Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy.

I like to think apples in Maine should be like cheeses in France, where you go 10 miles and you get a whole new cheese. In Maine there should be a different cider and apple in every town or county

While superfluity engenders disgust, appetite is but whetted when fruit is forbidden.

[I]t is better to be content with the fraction of a right solution than to beguile ourselves with the whole of a wrong solution.

The bitter-sweet of a white oak acorn which you nibble in a bleak November walk over the tawny earth is more to me than a slice of imported pineapple.