“Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.”
Songs (2002)
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American singer-songwriter and pianist 1980Related quotes
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 5.
“A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.”
Certaine gayeté d'esprit conficte en mespris des choses fortuites.
Prologue de l'autheur.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552)
“I felt like a pickle stepping into history.”
During the unveiling of his official portrait in the East Room of the White House http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1464584/Bill-Clinton-back-in-big-picture-for-unveiling-of-his-portrait.html (June 14, 2004)
2000s
“He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.”
On Calvin Coolidge, as quoted in The Washington Post (21 October 1924).
“I've done bad things with relish, and good things with pickles.”
"Ennui"
Lyrics, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (2003)
“Eat pickled turnips with yellow beans. It gives the taste of walnut.”
Last words of Jin Shengtan, "contained in a sealed letter to his family as he went to his execution, as a joke upon the magistrate", as quoted and reported by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Understanding (1960), p. 468
“Abram, Abraham became
By will divine
Let pickled Brian's name
Be changed to Brine!”
Poem in letter Joseph Dalton Hooker (4 December 1894) in response to hearing that Hooker's son had fallen into a salt vat. Huxley papers at Imperial College London HP 2.454
1890s
“I have mood swings, but I can deal with that by watching Netflix and eating pickles.”
Interview with Haaretz, February 14, 2017 http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/.premium-1.771440
2017