I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the hou...se.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the "dragon," in their eff...orts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite ...unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them,--for they are extremely sensitive to its rays,--are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-...headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometime after the Enlightenment, science and religion came to a gentleman's agreement. Science was for the real world: machines, ...manufactured things, medicines, guns, moon rockets. Religion was for everything else, the immeasurable: morals, sacraments, poetry, insanity, death, and some residual forms of politics and statesmanship. Religion became, in both senses of the word, immaterial. Science and religion were apples and or anges. So the pact said: render unto apples the things that are Caesar's, and unto oranges the things that are God's. Just as the Maya kept two calendars, one profane and one priestly, so Western science and religion fell into two different conceptions of the universe, two different vocabularies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to legend, Dr. Sappington purchased his coffin several years before his death and kept it under his bed, with apples and... nuts in it for his visiting grandchildren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't give a hoot in a hollow if there's oranges and grapes a-crowdin' us out of bed, I ain't goin' to California! This is my co...untry and I belong here. This is my dirt. It's no good, but it's mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some bring a capon, some a rural cake, Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make... The better cheeses bring 'em, or else send By their ripe daughters, whom they would commend This way to husbands, and whose baskets bear An emblem of themselves in plum or pear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An orange grown in Florida usually has a thin and tightly fitting skin, and it is also heavy with juice. Californians say that if ...you want to eat a Florida orange you have to get into a bathtub first. California oranges are light in weight and have thick skins that break easily and come off in hunks. The flesh inside is marvelously sweet, and the segments almost separate themselves. In Florida, it is said that you can run over a California orange with a ten-ton truck and not even wet the pavement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »