Quotes about pudding

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

Quotes about pudding

William Golding photo

“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there…”

Source: Pincher Martin (1956), p. 190, as cited in [The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction, Josipovici, Gabriel, w:Gabriel Josipovici, Stanford University Press, London, 0-8047-0797-9, 243, http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LTSsAAAAIAAJ]

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“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.

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James Patterson photo

“I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Janet Evanovich photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Mo Willems photo

“The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?”

Mo Willems (1968) American children's illustrator and writer

Source: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

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Richelle Mead photo
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“He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: How the Grinch stole Christmas! And other stories

“When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.”

Sandra Dallas American writer

Source: Prayers for Sale

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“Take away that pudding – it has no theme.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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)

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Miguel de Cervantes photo

“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 24.

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“4723. The Proof of a Pudding is in the eating.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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“Life's a pudding full of plums;
Care's a canker that benumbs,
Wherefore waste our elocution
On impossible solution?
Life's a pleasant institution,
Let us take it as it comes!”

W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo

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

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“…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

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“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.”

Joel Barlow (1754–1812) American diplomat

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.

Alan Watts photo
Joel Barlow photo

“Thy name is Hasty-Pudding! thus our sires
Were wont to greet thee fuming from the fires.”

Joel Barlow (1754–1812) American diplomat

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.

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Joe Biden photo

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating. We're going to know shortly.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

16 June 2021 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/16/biden-putin-geneva-494812
2021, June 2021

Joe Biden photo

“In every single crisis we have had that I have been around, going back to Jimmy Carter and the hostages all the way through to this moment, presidents’ ratings have always gone up in a crisis, but that old expression, the proof is going to be in eating the pudding. What’s it going to look like?”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

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