Quotes about pudding
A collection of quotes on the topic of pudding, likeness, eating, proof.
Quotes about pudding

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.

Source: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 9

“I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.”
Source: The Angel Experiment

Source: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

Source: How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories
“When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.”
Source: Prayers for Sale
Anything For Billy (1988).

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 10 (at page 77-78)
Daniel Martin (1977)

“Take away that pudding – it has no theme.”
As cited in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (2010), ed. Susan Ratcliffe, Oxford University Press, p. 193 : ISBN 0199567069 ; reported in The Way the Wind Blows (1976), Lord Home, Quadrangle, p. 217.
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Autobiographical Recollections (Leslie) ; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 24.

“4723. The Proof of a Pudding is in the eating.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Letter to F.R. Minoe, June 12, 1789, reported in Life and Work of Fisher Ames, vol. I, 52-54.
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.192

The tangled Skein.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

New millennium, An Interview with Paul A. Samuelson, 2003
Source: Memoirs, Unreliable Memoirs (1980), p. 13
“…he must need wish in a hurry; and wish he did, that the black pudding may come off his nose.”
English Fairy Tales (1890), More English Fairy Tales (1894), The Three Wishes

"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921

Canto 1: st. 1, lines 1–10
The Hasty-Pudding (1793)
Context: Despise it not, ye Bards to terror steel'd,
Who hurl'd your thunders round the epic field;
Nor ye who strain your midnight throats to sing
Joys that the vineyard and the still-house bring;
Or on some distant fair your notes employ,
And speak of raptures that you ne'er enjoy.
I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel,
My morning incense, and my evening meal,
The sweets of Hasty-Pudding. Come, dear bowl,
Glide o'er my palate, and inspire my soul.

“Thy name is Hasty-Pudding! thus our sires
Were wont to greet thee fuming from the fires.”
Canto 1: st. 8 & st. 9, lines 1–12
The Hasty-Pudding (1793)
Context: But here tho' distant from our native shore,
With mutual glee we meet and laugh once more,
The same! I know thee by that yellow face,
That strong complexion of true Indian race,
Which time can never change, nor soil impair,
Nor Alpine snows, nor Turkey's morbid air;
For endless years, thro' every mild domain,
Where grows the maize, there thou art sure to reign.
But man, more fickle, the bold license claims,
In different realms to give thee different names.
Thee soft nations round the warm Levant
Palanta call, the French of course Polante;
E'en in thy native regions, how I blush
To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush!
On Hudson's banks, while men of Belgic spawn
Insult and eat thee by the name suppawn.
All spurious appellations, void of truth:
I've better known thee from my earliest youth,
Thy name is Hasty-Pudding! thus our sires
Were wont to greet thee fuming from the fires.

Letter to William Elliot (26 May 1795), quoted in Daniel E. Ritchie (ed.), Further Reflections on the French Revolution (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1992), pp. 261-262
1790s

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 262

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating. We're going to know shortly.”
16 June 2021 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/16/biden-putin-geneva-494812
2021, June 2021

29 March 2020 https://news.grabien.com/story-joe-biden-you-know-old-expression-proof-going-be-eating-pudd
2020, March 2020