Breaking Eggs Quotes

• You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls

  Margaret Thatcher

  Naked, Balls, Clue

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• Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Eggs, Made, Omelets

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• Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Broken Heart, Food, Eggs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

  Jonathan Swift

  Eggs, Gulliver's Travels, Break

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Lilliput" ch. 4 (1726)

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• You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette.

  Stephen Colbert

  Eggs

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• There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Science, Eggs

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• After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

  Harris L Coulter

  Baby, Eggs, Vaccines

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• As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Broken, Former

  "Statecraft".

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• I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

  Robert Moses

  Ghetto, Eggs, People

  "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

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• If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

  Hermann Goring

  Taken, Eggs, People

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• Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

  Lance Morrow

  Hero, Ukraine, Eggs

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