Pies

“He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.”

“Our Transatlantic cousins are very fond of apple-pie. It is consumed to a large extent all over the country. Not raised apple-pie; but flat, and with a paste that is invariably very coarse and indigestible. You have a triangular-shaped slice put on your plate, and (in some parts of America) if you do not want to be singular you will eat it with a bit of cheese, Yorkshire fashion. As an American lady once graphically put it:Is like a kiss without a squeeze."”

“On the : Morgenbesser, ordering dessert, is told by the waitress that he can choose between apple pie and blueberry pie. He orders the apple pie. Shortly thereafter, the waitress comes back and says that cherry pie is also an option; Morgenbesser says "In that case I'll have the blueberry pie."”

“No man's pie is freedFrom his ambitious finger.”

“There may be "pie in the sky when you die" but how the pie is dished out on the ground has considerable existential relevance.”

“The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”