Famous quotes containing the words apple, final and/or cut:
“A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling.”
—Edward A. Boyden, U.S. womens magazine contributor. The Womans Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888)
“Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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