“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”
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American chef 1903–1985Related quotes
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)
“Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.”
Stanza 39.
Beppo (1818)
“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“[He] spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon.”
Thomas Fuller, describing Tusser's failure to profit from numerous ventures.
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“Butter, bread, and green cheese: whoever cannot say that is not a true Frisian.”
Quoted in: The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists. Volumes 42-43, The Institute, 2003. p. 192
According to legend, Pier forced his captives to repeat this shibboleth to distinguish Frisians from Dutch and Low Germans.
“Man can not live by bread alone… he must have peanut butter.”