Bread Quotes

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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for… — Victor Hugo
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found. — William Macneile Dixon
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and… — John Burroughs
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures… — Washington Irving
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food. — Mahatma Gandhi
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body. — Mahatma Gandhi
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. — Fran Lebowitz
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old… — Saul Bellow
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder. — John Ruskin
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. — Antonio Porchia
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. — Jonathan Swift
It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of… — John Cheever
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt. — George Herbert
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of… — Susan B. Anthony
Better is half a loaf than no bread. — John Heywood
I know on which side my bread is buttered. — John Heywood
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked… — Helen Fielding
I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white… — Helen Fielding
Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will… — John Steinbeck
Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril. — Kenneth Tynan

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