“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 218
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“I’m as humble and sweet as apple pie.”
From an interview https://blog.shemaleyum.info/bailey-jay-plays-with-her-shaved-cock for Grooby Girls blog (July 19, 2010).
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“The best of all physicians
Is apple pie and cheese!”
Apple Pie and Cheese, st. 5
A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

Nothing’s Sacred (2005)
“Apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze.”
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“If you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.”
Si vis me flere, dolendum est
primum ipsi tibi.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 102

“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”
Source: Enough Rope