As like as an apple is to a lobster. [ Proverb ]

The lovely town was white with apple blooms.
And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their serial looms.
Shot through with golden thread. [ Longfellow ]

Offer not the pear to him that gave the apple. [ Proverb ]

An apple may happen to be better given than eaten. [ Proverb ]

He that is won with a nut may be lost with an apple. [ Proverb ]

Carry your knife even between the paring and the apple. [ Proverb ]

Say to Pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sometimes it is better to give your apple, than eat it yourself. [ Proverb ]

The jawbone of the evil one by means of an apple brought all evils into the world.

Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]

There is something too dear in the hope of seeing again.... Dear heart, be quiet; we say; you will not be long separated from those people that you love; be quiet, dear heart! And then we give it in the meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something, and then it is good and quiet, like a little child whose mother gives it a doll instead of the apple which it ought not to eat. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]