There's a small choice in rotten apples. [ William Shakespeare ]

All human history attests
That happiness for man - the hungry sinner —
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! [ Byron ]

Her cheek like apples which the sun had ruddied. [ Spenser ]

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. [ Solomon ]

Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for gold and silver. [ Proverb ]

One sneers at curls when one has no more hair; one slanders apples when one has no more teeth. [ A. Karr ]

Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it. [ Tupper ]

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies. [ Burton ]

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]