Adam Quote by Anonymous

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

— Neil Gaiman

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

— Mark Twain

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh…

— Mark Twain

“I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a…

— Toni Morrison

“Adam may have been tempted by Eve but then Apples are only seasonal fruit.”

— Amit Abraham

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was…

— Mark Twain

“Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.”

— L.P. Hartley

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

— Bruce Feiler

“He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of…

— Achmat Dangor

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache

— Hungarian Proverb

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

— Bertrand Russell