Oil And Vinegar Quotes

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

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  C. E. M. Joad

  Birthday   Wine   Turning 50  

  1734

• Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

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  Oliver Goldsmith

  Oil   Agreement   Sugar  

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 11.

  220

• She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

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  Barbara Pym

  Food   Wine   Simple  

  2488

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

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  Pope John XXIII

  Birthday   Drinking   Wine  

  4642

• 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

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  Janet Chapman

  Real   Oil   Bed  

  3899

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

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  Aeschylus

  Oil   Vinegar   Opponents  

  1252

• I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

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  Thomas Gainsborough

  Time   Oil   Enemy  

  Letter to a patron, in John Hayes 'Thomas Gainsborough' (1980) p. 14

  777

• When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

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  Stephanie Beacham

  Stupid   Sunshine   Oil  

  1226

• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

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  Paul Newman

  Agreement   Ideas   Oil  

  1143

• A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

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  Ogden Nash

  Food   Oil   Cooking  

  2118

• 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.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Food   Oil   Cooking  

  1880 Vera, or The Nihilists, act 2.

  4566