Porridge Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
— Mason Cooley
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One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.
— Richard Gregory
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be…
— Ray Bradbury
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At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye,…
— Alastair Reynolds
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Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.
— George R. R. Martin
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If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to…
— Muhammad
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The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches but I…
— Donald Miller
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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
— Anton du Beke
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It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates.…
— Craig Johnston
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Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious…
— Julia Quinn
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I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to…
— Anjelica Huston
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Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place,…
— Marianne Faithfull
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If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less…
— Rory McIlroy
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The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used…
— David Walliams
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Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.
— Stephen Fry
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The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.
— Paul Davies
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Porridge Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 31 Porridge Quotes, led by these top contributors: