Dessert First Quotes

• Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational Life, Life Is Short, Firsts

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• Life is short. Eat dessert first.

  Jacques Torres

  Life, Firsts, Life Is Short

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• Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

  Joss Whedon

  Want, Firsts, Dessert

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• Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

  Don Kardong

  Sports, Food, Inspiration

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• Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!

  Erma Bombeck

  Night, Thinking, Desert

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  Barbara Johnson

  Food, Weight Loss, Hands

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

  B. C. Forbes

  Positive, Meat, Pleasure

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• Life is short, have dessert first.

  Wendy Mass

  Life Is Short, Firsts, Life Is

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• Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

  Judith Viorst

  Inspirational, Strength, Food

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• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Perfect, Cooking

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• Don't cry over spilt milk.

  Aesop

  Regret, Milk, Cry

  "The Milkmaid and Her Pail". Fable by Aesop published in "Aesop's Fables For Children", 1919.

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• There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

  Bobby Heenan

  Easter, Yummy, Cycling

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• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

  Eugene Field

  Food, Blessed, Night

  'Apple Pie and Cheese'

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• You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because... Ooooh. Shiny.

  Sloane Crosley

  Growing Up, Kids, Order

  FaceBook post by Sloane Crosley from Nov 15, 2014

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• I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?

  Wendy Mass

  Sweet, Dad, Life Is Short

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”

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• I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Order, Guy, Wish

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