“The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.”
The Spinners' Web (1988).
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(1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Remark to Adam Smith, as attributed in P. J. O'Rourke, On The Wealth of Nations (2007), p. 184
Attributed
“French for "Games without frontiers" (background vocals throughout the song, sung by Kate Bush)”
Peter Gabriel
(1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Jeux sans frontieres
Games Without Frontiers
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)
“The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.”
Henry James
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Theatricals
Theatricals: Second Series (1895).
On French Politician
A Year in the Merde (2005)
“Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.”
George Gordon Byron
(1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 39.
Beppo (1818)
“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”
Richard Hooker
(1554–1600) English bishop and Anglican Divine
Quoted by Samuel Johnson in the preface http://books.google.com/books?id=j-UIAAAAQAAJ&q=change+%22is+not+made+without+inconvenience+even+from+worse+to+better%22&pg=PT8#v=onepage to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”
Jonathan Swift
(1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
John Heywood
(1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Yes yes, said she, for all those wise words uttered,
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
But there will no butter cleave on my bread.
And on my bread any butter to be spread.
Every promise that you therein do utter,
Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)