Barley Quotes - Page 2

• I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

  Daniel Defoe

  Beer, Design, Trying

  Daniel Defoe (1719). “Robinson Crusoe: The Illustrated Edition”, p.155, Top Five Books LLC

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Children, Giving, Sugar

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• He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

  John Bunyan

  Looks, Wheat, Sin

  1684 The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

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• the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Way, Helping

  Athenaeus (of Naucratis.), Charles Burton Gulick (1969). “The Deipnosophists”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Bored, Buying

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• Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Russia, Soup, Shade

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