“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
“The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Source: The Time Paradox
“After us, the deluge. I care not what happens when I am dead and gone.”
Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764) chief mistress of Louis XV of France
Said while the French financial system was on the verge of collapse, as quoted in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) by E. Cobham Brewer. Brewer states that this was sometimes attributed to the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, but that he was probably simply quoting Madame de Pompadour.
“What is this "mac and cheese"? Is that a black thing?”
Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister
Is that a black thing? 2011-11-23 The 700 Club Television CBN, quoted in * 2011-11-23 Quoted: Pat Robertson on Condi Rice’s mysterious Thanksgiving dish The Reliable Source Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/quoted-pat-robertson-on-condi-rices-mysterious-thanksgiving-dish/2011/11/23/gIQAT9o0oN_blog.html after an interview segment where guest Condoleezza Rice named it as her favorite Thanksgiving dish
“What a friend we have in cheeses.”
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Referring to New Zealand's lucrative dairy export industry.
Source: New Zealand Wit & Wisdom (1998), p. 155.
“What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?”
Denis Norden (1922–2018) British comedy scriptwriter and television presenter
You can't have your Kayak and heat it