Mint Quotes

• The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

  Waverley Root

  Food, Destiny, Cooking

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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• As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Garden, Smell

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• It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.

  Margaret Atwood

  Clear, Candy

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• Fresher than a pillow with a mint on it

  Drake

  Humble, Pillow, Self Perception

  Song: Lust For Life, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Accepting, Offers, Breaths

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• It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Past, Done

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• Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Advertising, Making Money

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• The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

  John Gerard

  Food, Heart, Men

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• The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

  Mary MacLane

  White, World, Littles

  Mary MacLane (2013). “I Await the Devil's Coming”, p.14, Melville House

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• Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Hope, Witty

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor

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• Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.7584, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, California, Perfect

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.17, Penguin

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• My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.

  Holly Black

  Wish, Aspirin

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.

  Greg Proops

  Fool, Cop

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• The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

  Langston Hughes

  Past, Blood, Sorrow

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.172, University of Missouri Press

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• She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

  Anthony Marra

  Tongue, Fluency, Wanted

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.350, Random House

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• Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

  Iggy Azalea

  Fashion, Luxury, Bed

  "Ten Questions: Iggy Azalea". Interview with Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

  Jim Bishop

  Chocolate Ice Cream, Cows, Chips

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• Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1147, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Writing, Style, Disappear

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• I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.

  Jack Gantos

  Hockey, Goal, Kitchen

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• ....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Ice, Mind

  Charles Dickens (1842). “American Notes for General Circulation”, p.170

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• Breath mints and Chapstick are key if you want to have a good kiss.

  Brett Davern

  Kissing, Keys, Want

  "Celebrity Makeout Secrets" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 5, 2013.

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• A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Brain

  1594-5 King, of Armado. Love's Labour's Lost, act1, sc.1, l.162-5.

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