"It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider ."
~ Benjamin Franklin
“He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.”
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Cider was, next to water, the most abundant and the cheapest fluid to be had in New Hampshire, while i lived there, -- often selling for a dollar per barrel. In many a family of six or eight persons, a barrel tapped on Saturday barely lasted a full week.....The transition from cider to warmer and more potent stimulants was easy and natural; so that whole families died drunkards and vagabond paupers from the impetus first given by cider-swilling in their rural homes....."
~ Horace Greeley (1811-1872)
“Give me yesterday's Bread, this Day's Flesh, and last Year's Cyder.”
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanac
“The king and high priest of all the festivals was the autumn Thanksgiving. When the apples were all gathered and the cider was all made, and the yellow pumpkins were rolled in from many a hill in billows of gold, and the corn was husked, and the labors of the season were done, and the warm, late days of Indian Summer came in, dreamy, and calm, and still, with just enough frost to crisp the ground of a morning, but with warm traces of benignant, sunny hours at noon, there came over the community a sort of genial repose of spirit - a sense of something accomplished.”
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Never praise your cider, horse, or bedfellow."
~ Benjamin Franklin
“In the old days there would be a cider barrel.”
~ Ralph Coleman
“I heard a sound as of scraping tripe,
And putting apples wondrous ripe,
Into a cider- press's gripe.”
~ Robert Browning
