“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
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)
“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)
“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 1
“[He] spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon.”
Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) English poet
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.”
Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480–1520) Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel
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.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist