In The Apple Barrel Quotes

#1. A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

Sam Snead

#2. If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Rick Danko

#4. If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. Exactly. You might not be the sharpest apple in the barrel, but you do have your wicks lit when it matters.

Katie MacAlister

#6. When you walk with trash, you end up smelling the same.

Anthony Liccione

#7. In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.

Wallace Stegner

#8. Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.

Sterling W. Sill

#9. Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake.

Constant Lambert

#10. Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. One crying child is the rotten apple in the barrel of the tribe!

Alice Walker

#12. Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

Michael Pollan

#13. Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#14. You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to me. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#15. The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent.

Joseph Haydn

#16. Don't be afraid to show your feelings. Wear your heart on your sleeves. The right one will see

Rita Zahara

#17. Love is the most important thing? Above everything else

J. Sterling

#18. We do not have a few "rotten apples"; we have a rotten-apple barrel and a pervasive culture of corruption.

Thomas J. Gradel