quotes about Vinegar
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If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
-- Aeschylus -
There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
-- Alfred Sturtevant -
Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
-- Andrew Cuomo -
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Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.
-- Cassandra King -
It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.
-- Emily MatcharSource : Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.232, Simon and Schuster
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Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
-- George Eliot -
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
-- Harold Wilson -
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We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed
-- Janet Chapman -
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
-- John Lyly -
You do not get more with honey than with vinegar.
-- Larry KramerSource : "You Can Never Not Fight Back!". Interview with Alisa Solomon, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2004.
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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
-- Samuel Johnson -
The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.
-- Sid WaddellSource : "Sid Waddell's quotes: 13 of the best" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2012.
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I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.
-- Sue TownsendSource : "I didn't know what Adrian Mole looked like - well, not until I saw John Major on the telly". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.
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There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?
-- William Morley PunshonSource : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.20, Adam, Stevenson
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Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
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I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.
-- Bernie Marsden