Garlic Quotes

• Without garlic I simply would not care to live.

  Louis Diat

  Care

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• You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

  Morley Safer

  New York, Food, Enough

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• There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

  Louis Diat

  Food, Fire, Air

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• Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Cooking, Used, Peace And Happiness

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• There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Food, Miracle, Cooking

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• Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

  Les Blank

  Mother, Food, Cooking

  "Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers". Documentary, 1980.

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• Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

  William Shatner

  Smell

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• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Art, Insanity, Salad

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• If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

  J. G. Ballard

  Smell, Ifs

  "Criticwire Survey: What We’re Most (and Least) Looking Forward to This Fall" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. September 1, 2015.

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• Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Oil, Lazy, Cost

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• Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Onions

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.47, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Oil, Lazy

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke.

  Thomas Nash

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

  Angelo Pellegrini

  Food, Blessed, Ice Cream

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• A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

  Curnonsky

  Excess, Caress

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• Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

  Cyril Connolly

  Vulgarity Is, Literature, Salad

  "The Condemned Playground". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

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• It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

  Alice Waters

  Garden, Comfort, Pasta

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• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
  Your heart's an empty hole.
  Your brain is full of spiders,
  You've got garlic in your soul.

  Dr. Seuss

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Smell, Onions, Peasants

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1954). “Don Quixote”, London ; Montreal : Penguin Books

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• I love garlic, and I use it often.

  Eric Ripert

  Use

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• We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

  Leslie White

  Cooking, Onions, Knows

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• Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

  Calvin Trillin

  Vampire, Excess, Tradition

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• What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Thinking, Young, Young Women

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1912). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.

  Jorge Cruise

  Believe, Vegetables, Magic

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• There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.

  Les Blank

  Cat, Doubt, Floating

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