Apple Proverb

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A bad tree does not yield good apples.

A pear tree cannot bear an apple.

A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

An apple never falls far from the tree.

An apple-pie without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

Anyone can count the number of seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. (Robert H. Schuller)

Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better.

Better an apple pie than apple blossom.

Different men have different opinions; some prefer apples, some onions.

Don't upset the apple cart.

For an apple and an egg.

Give an apple to the little ones, a book to the old.

Handsome apples are sometimes sour.

If the prince wants an apple, his servants take the tree.

If there is no apple one eats a little carrot.

If you want apples, you have to shake the trees.

Many a rose-cheeked apple is rotten at the core.

No apple tree is immune from worms.

One bad apple spoils the bunch.

One of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple.

One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.

Small choice in rotten apples.

Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the tree of knowledge.

The apple does not fall far from the tree.

The apple falls on the head that's under it.

The nice apples are always eaten by nasty pigs.

The night may be dark, but the apples have been counted.

The old monkey gets the apple.

The rotten apple injures its neighbour.

There are many who throw stones at a red apple.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. (Alice Meynell)

There's no making apples of plums.

When the apple is ripe it will fall.

Who has tasted a sour apple, will have the more relish for a sweet one.

You are the apple of my eye.

You can count the apples on a tree but you can't count the trees from one apple.

You can't compare apples with pears.

Your neighbor's apples are the sweetest.

Poor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye. (Sir Walter Scott, in Old Mortality, 1816)

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. (Bible, Deuteronomy 32:10, King James Version)

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. (Bible, Zechariah 2:8)

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye (Shakespeare, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1590)

A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath. (Shakespeare)

An apple cleft in two is not more twin than these two creatures (Shakespeare)

Kent, sir—everybody knows Kent—apples, cherries, hops, and women. (Charles Dickens)

There's small choice in rotten apples. (Shakespeare)

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. (George Bernard Shaw)

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學了好多與Apple相關的諺語,謝分享,周末快樂。 -婉蕠- 給 婉蕠 發送悄悄話 婉蕠 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 11/12/2011 postreply 07:35:57

謝分享,周末快樂。 -走馬讀人- 給 走馬讀人 發送悄悄話 走馬讀人 的博客首頁 (140 bytes) () 11/12/2011 postreply 09:32:02

閱讀了,周日好。 -婉蕠- 給 婉蕠 發送悄悄話 婉蕠 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 11/13/2011 postreply 06:30:38

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