Salad Quotes

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Perfect, Ingredients, Share

"Yotam Ottolenghi's end-of-winter salad recipes" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

Fran Lebowitz

Style, Meals

1978 Metropolitan Life,'Food For Thought and Vice Versa'.

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One of the benefits of eating salad is that you can eat tons of it and never be satisfied.

Jim Gaffigan

Benefits, Eating, Satisfied

FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Jul 01, 2013

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From salad dressings all blessings flow.

Paul Newman

Blessing, Salad Dressing, Flow

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Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

Woody Allen

Men, Needs, Bread

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Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

James Beard

Simple, Imagination, Suffering

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What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner — the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the, palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much longer duration.

Alexis Soyer

Appetite, Refreshing, Seems

"A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy".

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Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.

Laurie Colwin

People, Enlightened, Type

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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Miles Kington

Funny, Hilarious, Wise

The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.

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My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare

Memorable, Green, Judgment

'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 5, l. 73

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To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

George Ellwanger

Successful, Perfect, Events

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I want to focus on my salad.

Martha Stewart

Hilarious, Memorable, Focus

Martha Stewart (2005). “The World According to Martha”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl.

Dorothy Draper

Bowls

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According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

John Gerard

Food, Oil, Cooking

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If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.

Rita Rudner

Funny, Humor, Men

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A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

Sean Covey

Respect, Fruit Salad, Flavor

Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Personal Workbook”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Food, Cooking, Culinary

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Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.

Richard Carleton

Blood, Substance, Causes

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I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.

Black Thought

Rap, Names, Hip Hop

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Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

Vivienne Westwood

Fashion, Mcdonalds, Bits

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You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Lettuce, Dressings

Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories”, p.170, Canongate Books

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A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.

Joe Thompson

Figures, Ifs, Southerner

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Oscar Wilde

Food, Oil, Cooking

1880 Vera, or The Nihilists, act 2.

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Have a colourful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots.

Kristen Bell

Apples, Carrots, Spinach

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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.

Sarah Dessen

Crazy, Chickens

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.127, Penguin

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