Pies

"PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion."

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

"In general, in-door prospects are the best. ... What is an old roofless cathedral compared to a well-built pie?"

"The best of all pies is a grouse-pie; the second a black-cock pie; the third a woodcock pie (with plenty of spices;) the fourth a chicken-pie (ditto.) As for a pigeon-pie, it is not worthy of a place upon any table, so long as there are chickens in the world. A rook-pie is a bad imitation of that bad article; and a beef-steak-pie is really abominable. A good pie is excellent when hot; but the test of a good pie is, "how does it eat cold?" — Apply this to the examples above cited, and you will find I am correct."

"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: "Apple-pie without cheese 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.""

"If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!"

"No man's pie is freed From 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."