Bread And Butter Quotes

• If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

  Jacques Pepin

  Bread, Beats, Extraordinary

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• Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

  James Beard

  Food, Beard, Bread

  "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

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• A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

  Marcus Garvey

  Work, Men, Bread

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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• I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bread, Quarrels

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 1.

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• The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Men, History, Records

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• I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fellowship, Too Much, Bread

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• Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

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• Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Bread

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Not a deed would he do,
  Not a word would he utter,
  Till he's weighed its relation
  To plain bread and butter.

  James Russell Lowell

  Food, Cooking, Deeds

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cake, Missing, Tea

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.402, Courier Dover Publications

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• Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

  Ani DiFranco

  Bread, Shows

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• If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.

  Barbara Johnson

  Kindness, Giving, Peanut Butter

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• All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

  Joseph Addison

  Morning, Tea, Bread

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.129

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• The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Fire, Cooking

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• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  Fiona Apple

  Men, Bread, Shame

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• I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Jobs, School, Actors

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

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• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Design, Half

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• Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

  Lewis Carroll

  Butterfly, Wings, Feet

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Through the Looking-Glass: and what Alice found there”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

  Ice Cube

  Crazy, People, Bread

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• I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reading, Cutting, Reflection

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• I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

  Stijn Streuvels

  Father, Punishment, Water

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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• Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Lakes, Clouds

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• The Army was my bread and butter.

  Brian Lumley

  Army, Bread

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• All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Adventure, Joy, Sorrow

  Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Cheney (2010). “Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals”, p.262, Applewood Books

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