Quotes about bacon

A collection of quotes on the topic of bacon, likeness, use, time.

Quotes about bacon

Ronald Reagan photo

“Socialists ignore the side of man that is of the spirit. They can provide shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you are ill, all the things that are guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we dream — yes, even of some time owning a yacht.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

As quoted in Stories in His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan (2001) https://books.google.com/books?id=9ut8fnmwVkwC&pg=PA91 edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, and Martin Anderson. p. 91
Post-presidency (1989–2004)

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“Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.”

Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man

Also told to Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.

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“Bacon in his instruction tells us that the scientific student ought not to be as the ant, who gathers merely, nor as the spider who spins from her own bowels, but rather as the bee who both gathers and produces.”

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist

Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 404
Context: Bacon in his instruction tells us that the scientific student ought not to be as the ant, who gathers merely, nor as the spider who spins from her own bowels, but rather as the bee who both gathers and produces. All this is true of the teaching afforded by any part of physical science. Electricity is often called wonderful, beautiful; but it is so only in common with the other forces of nature. The beauty of electricity or of any other force is not that the power is mysterious, and unexpected, touching every sense at unawares in turn, but that it is under law, and that the taught intellect can even now govern it largely. The human mind is placed above, and not beneath it, and it is in such a point of view that the mental education afforded by science is rendered super-eminent in dignity, in practical application and utility; for by enabling the mind to apply the natural power through law, it conveys the gifts of God to man.

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“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”

Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist

Source: Shades of Grey

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“Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!”

Patricia C. Wrede (1953) author

Source: Magician's Ward

Thomas Jefferson photo

“I hope your bacon burns.”

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

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“Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness

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“But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?”

Source: Enchanted Glass

“I only eat bacon socially.”

Radio From Hell (April 19, 2006)

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“A thought struck me: if my new album sounds this good on a walkman, what would eating a bacon sandwich and listening to a solo Ferry album, which turned me vegetarian.”

Robyn Hitchcock (1953) English singer-songwriter and guitarist

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“Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon
The author of Lear remains unshaken
Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton
What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

A Question of Values.

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“Of course what makes breakfast in bed so special is you're lying down and eating bacon, the most beautiful thing on Earth. Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause. (sizzling sounds) YEAAAA BACON!!!! You wanna hear how good bacon is? To improve other food they wrap it in bacon. If it wasn't for bacon we wouldn't even know what a water chestnut is. "Thank you bacon. Sincerely, Water Chestnut the third". And those bits of bacon, bits of bacon are like the fairy dust of the food community. "you don't want this baked potato," bbbrrriinnnggg! it's now your favorite part of the meal. "not interested in a salad?" bippady boppidy bacon! Just turned it into an entre. And once you put bacon into a salad it's no longer a salad, it just becomes a game of find the bacon in the lettuce. It's like you're panning for gold, hmmmmm, EUREKA! bacon! not many ways to prepare bacon, you can either fry it or get botulism. It's amazing the shrinkage that occurs. You start with a pound you end up with a book mark. You know the only bad part about bacon is it makes you thirsty… for more bacon! I never feel like I get enough bacon. at breakfast it's like they're rationalizing it. "Here's your two strips of bacon." "But I want more! More bacon!" Whenever you're at a brunch buffet and you see that metal tray filled with the four thousand strips of bacon, don't you almost expect a rainbow to be coming out of it? "I found it I found the source of all bacon!"”

Jim Gaffigan (1966) comedian, actor, author

That bacon tray is always at the end of the buffet, you always regret all the stuff on your plate. "What am I doing with all this worthless fruit? I should have waited! If I had known you were here I would've waited...."
King Baby

Morgan Murphy (food critic) photo

“Abstaining from bourbon and bacon doesn't make you live longer. It just feels that way.”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 130

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“When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.”

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956) British writer

"Bacon", in Baseless Biography (1939), p. 6.

“Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing—in addition to caring for man’s well-being—they were providing rights for themselves.”

Allan Bloom (1930–1992) American philosopher, classicist, and academician

“Commerce and Culture,” p. 289.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)

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Morgan Murphy (food critic) photo

“Bacon tastes better than skinny feels.”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 161

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“Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 214

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“Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/480273220659339264 (21 June 2014)
Twitter

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Fred Shero photo

“When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.”

Fred Shero (1925–1990) Former ice hockey player and coach

Jackson, Jim, Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now

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“With [Francis] Bacon, Vico continuously asserts the claims of grammar as true science precisely because it has not yielded to specialism and method.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 220

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“It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.
And so it is to the printing press — to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news — that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Kennedy here references Francis Bacon’s Aphorism 129 of Novum Organum: Again, we should notice the force, effect, and consequences of inventions, which are nowhere more conspicuous than in those three which were unknown to the ancients; namely, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world; first in literature, then in warfare, and lastly in navigation: and innumerable changes have been thence derived, so that no empire, sect, or star, appears to have exercised a greater power and influence on human affairs than these mechanical discoveries.
1961, Address to ANPA

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“We smoke the bacon so you don’t have to.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

"Menus: Free Range California Chicken", Stacey's at Waterford, 2008-01-14 http://www.eatatstaceys.com/staceys-waterford/menus-lunch.php,
Restaurant menus

Morgan Murphy (food critic) photo

“Bacon makes almost any meal tolerable.”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 216

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Jim Gaffigan photo

“I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.”

Jim Gaffigan (1966) comedian, actor, author

John Wenzel (October 10, 2008) "Underneath that pasty exterior beats the dark heart of a comic", The Denver Post, p. D-12.

Izaak Walton photo

“The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.”

Izaak Walton (1593–1683) English author and biographer

Life of Herbert (1670).

Salman Rushdie photo

“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skits, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex. There are tyrants, not Muslims. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we should now define ourselves not only by what we are for but by what we are against. I would reverse that proposition, because in the present instance what we are against is a no brainer. Suicidist assassins ram wide-bodied aircraft into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and kill thousands of people: um, I'm against that. But what are we for? What will we risk our lives to defend? Can we unanimously concur that all the items in the preceding list — yes, even the short skirts and the dancing — are worth dying for? The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must first know that he is wrong. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. These will be our weapons. Not by making war but by the unafraid way we choose to live shall we defeat them. How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002

Francois Rabelais photo

“Let us fly and save our bacon.”

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 55.

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Morgan Murphy (food critic) photo

“If there's no bacon in heaven, I don't plan on going.”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 180

Paul Cézanne photo

“Anyone who wants to paint should read Bacon. He defined the artists as homo additus naturae... Bacon had the right idea, but listen Monsieur Vollard, speaking of nature, the English philosopher, [Bacon] didn't for-see our open-air school, nor that other calamity which has followed close upon its heels: open-air indoors.”

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) French painter

Quote in a conversation with Vollard in museum The Luxembourg, Paris 1897 - standing before the 'Olympia' of Manet; as quoted in Cézanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 36
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s

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“We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.”

Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer

"Reflections and Anecdotes", nr. 264 (Douglas Parmée translation)

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“I don't care whether the glass is half full or half empty as long as there's bacon on the plate.”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 213

Stephen Baxter photo

“Like enough, you won't be glad,
When they come to hang you, lad:
But bacon's not the only thing
That's cured by hanging from a string.”

Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) British writer and journalist

"Two Poems, After A. E. Housman", no. 1, line 5

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Leon R. Kass photo
Morgan Murphy (food critic) photo

“All my life my mother has told me I'm hard to shop for. She can't find the bacon aisle!”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 193

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“Lord Bacon could as easily have created this planet as he could have written Hamlet.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

According to Moncure Conway (Thomas Carlyle (1881) p. 122) Carlyle said this in reply to a Baconian enthusiast who was attempting to convert him; alternatively reported as "the planets", remark in discussion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed

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Morgan Murphy (food critic) photo

“My four Southern food groups are bourbon, salt, bacon and pie.”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

Interview with The Chicago Tribune, Jan. 10, 2012 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-01-10/travel/sc-trav-0110-food-southern-livng-20120110_1_cadillac-bread-cubes-press-bread

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Lou Reed photo

“Life's like a mayonnaise soda
And life's like space without room
And life's like bacon and ice cream
That's what life's like without you”

Lou Reed (1942–2013) American musician

What's Good Full lyrics online http://www.lyricsforall.com/display/lyric/7312/2147393643/Lou+Reed/What%27s+Good/
Lyrics

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