Vinegar Quotes

• Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  Pope John XXIII

  Birthday, Drinking, Wine

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• Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cucumbers, Peppers

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 5 October 1773

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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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• You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

  Charlaine Harris

  Love, Life, Optimistic

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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• Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

  Austin O'Malley

  Wine, Despair

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• Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Birthday, Wine, Turning 50

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• Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

  Jennifer Egan

  Fear, Smell, Scent

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.77, Anchor

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• Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sweet, Wine, Good Nature

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Catching Fire, Bees And Honey

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.117, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• It's just starting. I think it's going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it's all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar - techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Thinking, Years, Cooking

  "Andrew Zimmern: Filipino food is the 'next big thing'". Interview with Veronica Meewes, www.today.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, Marriage, People

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• I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

  Jessica Alba

  Chemistry

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• I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

  Mary J. Blige

  Apples, Vines, Cider

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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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• The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

  William Shenstone

  Wine, Power, White

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.124

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• Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

  George Eliot

  Wine, Sun, Helping

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.238

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• Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Sweet, New York, Want

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• Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

  Lord Byron

  Wine, Flavor, Beverages

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 5

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• I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

  Pat Paulsen

  Wine, Long, Campaigns

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• If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

  Harold Wilson

  Choices, Salmon, Ifs

  In 'Observer' 11 November 1962

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• I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Enough, Bloody, Ifs

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.252, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Color, Years, Use

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• People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

  Rick Kaplan

  Wine, People, Age

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• If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

  Aeschylus

  Oil, Opponents, Not Friends

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• As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

  John Lyly

  Hate, Wine, Despise

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