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• Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Tea

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Food, Believe

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Food, Vegetables

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Energy, Floating, Lashes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
  Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!
  Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
  Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
  Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
  Beautiful, beautiful soup!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Evening, Eating

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Pain, Loneliness, Heart

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Jan 23, 2013

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• I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Kids, Epic

  "10 Epic Quotes From Gwyneth Paltrow" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. March 26, 2014.

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• Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

  Tom DeLay

  Children, Teaching, School

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• There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Two, Eccentric

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• You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

  Martin Yan

  Strong, Taste, Foundation

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• That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Crazy, Hot, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.

  Florence Fabricant

  Summer, Food, Winter

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• In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
  And talk of the old country--mud and boards,
  Poverty,
  The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

  Louis Simpson

  Country, Fall, Grandmother

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.182, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Food, Perfection, Attention

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• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  War, Food, Wine

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 14, 1799.

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• You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

  Joe Rogan

  Mma, Trying, Enjoy

  "Renaissance Man". Interview with Steph Daniels, www.sbnation.com. May 15, 2014.

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• A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

  Paul Dickson

  Ties, Clean

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• What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Food, Hair, Floating

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• A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

  James Boswell

  Cake, May, Littles

  'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 13 September 1773

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• Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

  Gertrude Berg

  Spring, Food, Winter

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• [He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Swimming

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• The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

  Bob Hope

  Humorous, Israel, Chickens

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• Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

  Mary Norris

  Cereal, Alphabet, Punctuation

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Strength, Wedding, Common Sense

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