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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.

  Cat Cora

  Cutting, Cooking, Sodium

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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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• This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, Grateful, Wine

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1152, Delphi Classics

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• No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave... Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.

  David Gemmell

  Beautiful, Wine, Long

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, Ch.7, 2002.

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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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• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  Gail Simmons

  Dark, Chocolate, Together

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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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• The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.

  Sid Waddell

  Redneck, Atmosphere, Chips

  "Sid Waddell's quotes: 13 of the best" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2012.

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• To remove product buildup from your hair, mix a tablespoon of vinegar in your hand with your favorite shampoo and rub through your hair. Concentrate on applying from the ends up and leave in for three to five minutes for beautifully clean hair with amazing shine!

  Ted Gibson

  Hair, Hands, Shining

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