Cheese Quotes

• Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• Good cheese needs good companions.

  James Beard

  Needs, Companion

  James Beard (2015). “Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Food, Two, Six

  Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"

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• When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Taken, Humor

  "George Carlin’s Daughter Kelly Carlin-McCall To Record Oral History Of Her Father’s Life For Hyperion" by Susan Wioszcyna, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2008.

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• The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese.

  Ricky Gervais

  Work Out, Reason, I Can

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• Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

  Billie Burke

  Funny, Humor, Cheesy

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• Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

  Italo Calvino

  Food, Sky, Cooking

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• Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Cheesy, Milk, Immortality

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Knives, Giving

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.805, Bantam

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• If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

  Amanda Peet

  Giving Up, Cheesy, Chocolate

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• A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

  Elizabeth I

  Funny, Beer, Perfect

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• The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Hurt, Drinking, Food

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• You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cheesy, Kitchen Confidential

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.156, A&C Black

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• Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Simple, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Pieces, Excuse

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

  Rachael Ray

  Guy, Trying, Diners

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• Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Food, Firsts, Commit

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• The real question is should we trust people who don't like cheese?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Real, People, Should

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Jun 15, 2013

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• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Food, Sarcasm

  "Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

  Billie Burke

  Age, Matter, Aging

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• I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

  William Shakespeare

  Garlic, Windmills

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [158]

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• We did talk about cheese on our first date.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Cheesy, Firsts, First Date

  "Scoop". People interview, people.com. May 21, 2001.

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• There is no food closer to my heart than cheese. In fact, according to my doctor, it has nearly filled my aorta.

  Stephen Colbert

  Heart, Doctors, Facts

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• Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Coward, Want

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