Garlic Quotes

• Without garlic I simply would not care to live.

  Louis Diat

  Care

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• You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

  Morley Safer

  New York, Food, Enough

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• There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

  Louis Diat

  Food, Fire, Air

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• Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Cooking, Used, Peace And Happiness

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• There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Food, Miracle, Cooking

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• Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

  William Shatner

  Smell

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• Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

  Les Blank

  Mother, Food, Cooking

  "Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers". Documentary, 1980.

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• Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Oil, Lazy, Cost

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• If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

  J. G. Ballard

  Smell, Ifs

  "Criticwire Survey: What We’re Most (and Least) Looking Forward to This Fall" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. September 1, 2015.

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• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Art, Insanity, Salad

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• Garlic bread - it's the future, I've tasted it.

  Peter Kay

  Bread

  "Phoenix Nights". www.imdb.com. 2001-2002.

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• Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Onions

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.47, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

  Alice Waters

  Garden, Comfort, Pasta

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• It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.

  George Ellwanger

  Food, Cooking, Odor

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• Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.

  Thomas Nash

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Oil, Lazy

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.77, A&C Black

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• A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

  Curnonsky

  Excess, Caress

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• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
  Your heart's an empty hole.
  Your brain is full of spiders,
  You've got garlic in your soul.

  Dr. Seuss

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

  Angelo Pellegrini

  Food, Blessed, Ice Cream

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• Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

  Calvin Trillin

  Vampire, Excess, Tradition

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• Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

  Cyril Connolly

  Vulgarity Is, Literature, Salad

  "The Condemned Playground". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

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• Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

  Calvin Trillin

  Jewish Tradition, Giving, Vampire

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• I love garlic, and I use it often.

  Eric Ripert

  Use

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• There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.

  Les Blank

  Cat, Doubt, Floating

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• You can never have too much money.

  Jess C Scott

  Beach, Too Much, Flipping A Coin

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