Our Orchard Quotes

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	Orchard Quote	Attribution
	When the apple is ripe it will fall.	Irish Proverb
	Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.	Song of Solomon
	Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't the apples will rot anyway.	Frank A. Clark
	Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.	Jane Austen
	I tell you, all politics is apple sauce.	Will Rogers
	Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.	Robert Greene (1590), Arcadia
	Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.	Sir Walter Scott
	My horse likes apples, chopped or neat, sour or sweet: autumn is welcome.	Drew's haiku
	By the Foukien sea the first fruits of summer will get you a deep, rich red.	Lean-sien (Chinese 17th C)
	The plum tree does not fear the cold and the camelia enlivens the banks of the river.	Yung p'ing (Chinese 17th C)
	The pear blossoms are pure white against the blue green willows.	Su Tung p'o
	Cuckoo, cuckoo cherry tree, good bird prithee tell to me how many years I am to see.	Trad.
	How do you get an old pie dish really clean? Bake an apple pie in it for your neighbour - it will come back sparkling.	Mid-west wisdom
	About the woodlands I will go, to see the cherry hung with snow.	A.E. Housman
	The branch bearing the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground.	Anon.
	The higher the tree, the sweeter the plum	Anon.
	Bitter fruit will fall before the ripe	Anon.
	They dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon	Edward Lear, 'The Owl and the Pussy-cat'
	Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough	A E Housman, A Shropshire Lad, no.2.
	I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees	Pablo Neruda
	What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?	Logan Pearsall Smith
	There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
	There was an Old Man of Girgenti, who lived in profusion and plenty; he lay on two chairs, and ate thousands of pears, that susceptible Man of Girgenti	Edward Lear
	Then hath thy orchard fruit, thy garden flowers, fresh as the air, and new as are the hours. The early cherry, with the later plum, fig, grape, and quince, each in his time doth come.	Ben Johnson
	Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs, about the lilting house and happy as the grass was green.	Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
	We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.	Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.
	He struck me as looking like a pear on top of two toothpicks.	Dean Gooderham Acheson, of Charles de Gaulle, 22 Oct 1980
	Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie, you were young and so was I	Maurice Irby, Jr./Jay & The Techniques
	I am withered like an old apple-john.	William Shakespeare
	Is there anything quite so good as both the smell and taste of a ripe greengage picked hot in the sun?	Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
	Wassaile the trees, that they may beare You many a plum, and many a peare: For more or less fruits they will bring, As you doe give them wassailing.	Robert Herrick
	If apples bloom in March, for fruit you may search.	Traditional in Cornwall
	From your apple trees keep the witches away, Or they'll blight the bloom on St. Dunstan's Day. (19th. May.)	Anon.
	If St. Margaret brings the first pear, Pears will abound for the rest of the year. (20th. July.)	Traditional
	A good nut year is a good corn year.	Traditional.
	Gather apples, pears, and other fruits in the decrease of the moon.	Maison Rustique
	Don't wait for windfalls, gather your own apples.	Traditional in Devonshire
	The rotten apple harms its neighbours.	Traditional
	Apple, pear and cherry make excellent firewood.	William Robinson
	An apple a day keeps the doctor away.	Traditional
	I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear...	Traditional nursery rhyme
	White butterflies in the air; White daisies prank the ground: The cherry and the hoary pear Scatter their snow around.	From 'Spring Goeth All in White' by Robert Bridges
	For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Catherine pear.	Sir John Suckling
	Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut...	William Shakespeare
	Fallen apples attract red admirals, painted ladies and tortoiseshells as well as the seasonal plague of wasps.	Peter Crawford
	If apples bloom in March In vain for them you'll search; If apples bloom in April Why then they'll be plentiful; If apples bloom in May You may eat them night and day	Traditional
	Plant pears For your heirs.	Traditional
	Who sets an apple tree may live to see it end, Who sets a pear tree may set it for a friend.	Traditional
	A cherry year, a merry year, A plum year, a dumb year.	Traditional. A rhyme without reason
	A tree without fruit is like life without love.	Variation on a 'Fat Face' label
	There are two Little Owls' nests in the paddock. One of them is in a hollow pear-tree to the east; and the other is in a hollow apple-tree to the west.	Robert Lynd from Solomon in All His Glory
	The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass...	Katherine Mansfield
	The greatest apple experience of my life was a Queen Cox apple: when we bit into it we knew we were eating something extraordinary: its perfume, the balance of sweet and acid, the juice, the texture. My God, it was simply divine.	Raymond Blanc, Le Manoir aux Quatre Saisons
	Apple-tree, apple-tree, bear good fruit, or down with your top and up with your root.	19th Century, South Hams, Devon
	Apples enow, hatfuls, capfuls, three-bushel bagfuls, tallets ole fulls, barn floor fulls, little heap under the stairs.	from The Apple Tree Wassail, Somerset
	The sudden death of Mr Nunn of Cley, Norfolk, is generally attributed to eating a great quantity of filberts and drinking port wine therewith.	York Courant Sept 1794
	The moon on the wane, gather fruit for to last, but winter fruit gather when Michael is past	Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry 1573
	If you gather not by hand (which is Tedious) Lay a truss of straw beneath the Tree and over that a blanket, discretely shaking them down, not to many at a time	Cook, The Making of Cider 1678
	All Plums are under Venus, and are like women, some better and some worse.	Culpeper, Herbal 1653
	Now for Quinces, they are a fruit which by no means you may place near any other ... because their scent is so strong and piercing that it will enter into any fruit and clean take away his natural relish.	Markham, The English Husbandman 1635
	We thank you and we rejoice in you; you fill our thoughts, haunting and fresh as the smell of apples.	Felix Timmermans, 1974, re: Peter Bruegel
	Stolen sweets are always sweeter; Stolen kisses much completer; Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.	James Henry Leigh Hunt
	There is a heavy, unbearable sadness at the sight of a fruit tree whose crop has been left to rot at its feet.	(c) Nigel Slater,The Kitchen Diaries II, 2012
	Gather William pears, or Williams's pears, to be didactic, as they are named after a Mr Williams who was the first person to distribute Bon Chretien pears in England. They are the palest gold with rough dark freckling, and delicious beyond words.	Ronald Blythe
	Apple trees were sent for the walled garden..."Six Gouldin Russetings, four Deusans, foure Summer Paremains".	Bassingbourne Gawdy
	Peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries and dwarf pears were all trained up in the warmth of the walled garden"	Robert Monsey
	He had replanted his beloved orchard and garden, making it a place for a gentleman...	Sir John Oglander
	Every cottage garden has its own miniature orchard: a dozen trees set out in two rows with the lower trunks whitewashed like bobby-socks to keep the insects at bay.	Roger Deakin writing about Ukraine
	Now it is my turn. Topping up my glass for courage, I speak of Kazakhstan's two great gifts to the world: the cultivated apple and the tamed horse.	Roger Deakin
	A circling row of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit, blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue appeared, with gay enamel'd colors mixed...	John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV 146
	Among sweet dews and flowers; where any row of fruit-trees over-woody reach'd too far their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check fruitless embraces	John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V 213
	Good fruit and good plenty doth well in the loft Then make thee an orchard and cherish it oft	Thomas Tusser, Five Hundreds Points of Good Husbandry, 1573
	No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass	Katherine Mansfield Notebooks
	In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.	James Boswell (1807). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D."
	Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.	Rachel Ray
	A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.	James Russell Lowell
	Life's a pudding full of plums.	W. S. Gilbert
	Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes	Kobayashi Issa
	We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.	J. B. Priestly
	All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips. W. C. Fields	W. C. Fields
	If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.	Mao Tse-Tung
	When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.	John Dryden
	You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.	Publilius Syrus
	O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.	Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
	A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut.	George Orwell
	See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides!	Paul Cezanne
	A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.	John Bunyan
	My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.	Christina Rossetti
	I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.	Camille Saint-Saens