Porridge Quotes

• Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Miscellaneous, Breaths, Spares

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.96

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• Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

  Stephen Fry

  Fun, World, Seems

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2014

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• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Comfort

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. 10

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• I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.258

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• We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

  Alan Turing

  Consistency, Brain, Facts

  Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.477, Oxford University Press

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• I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

  Anjelica Huston

  Running, Atheism, Unhappy

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• Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Children, Thinking, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.65, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

  David Walliams

  Morning, Kitchen, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.

  George R. R. Martin

  Milk And Honey, Honey, Milk

  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.2829, Bantam

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• My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

  Anton du Beke

  Morning, Reading, Drinking

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• ...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

  E. M. Forster

  Food, Cooking, Spirit

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• The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Paris, Syrup, London

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'My father belonged to a commune, and the food was always ghastly" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

  William Shakespeare

  Pie, Age, Cheeks

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166

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• Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

  Fergus Henderson

  Urban, Lifestyle, Wells

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• English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.

  Neal Ascherson

  Moving, Animal, Two

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• The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

  Paul Davies

  Ideas, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Coffee, Beer

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• The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ideas, People, Different

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• The early bird catches the worm.

  William Camden

  Wisdom, Italian, Bird

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• There is more than one way to burn a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Way, Censorship

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Eye, Psychosis, Ice

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• If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

  Muhammad

  Spiritual, Men, Camels

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• By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Voice, Feelings

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• It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

  Craig Johnston

  Sports, Practice, Eggs

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• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Book, People

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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