Quote

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Every
Food
Apple
Corpse
Quite
Apples
Departed
Term
Twelve
Afterward
State
Heat
Dessert
Hours
Cooking
Pie
Thence
Natural
Hour
Corpses
Oven
Comes
Forward
Reaches
Ovens
States
Highest
Culinary
Ghastly

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
What I spent, I had What I kept, I lost What I gave, I have.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The beginning is the promise of the end.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
Henry Ward Beecher