“There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.”
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“A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
As quoted in The New York Times Magazine (7 February 1965)
“Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.”
W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American New Thought author
Be Generous!
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947) American basketball player
Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director
Quoted in "Saint Paul," interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian (2005-04-10)
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
William Temple, in "Heads Designed for an Essay on Conversation" in The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. in Four Volumes (1757), Vol. III, p. 547.
Misattributed
“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
As quoted in The Rainmaker : A Passion for Politics (1986) by Keith Davey, p. 57; also in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) by Connie Robertson, p. 439