Dishes Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dishes Seasoning Whole Wit
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. — George Horne Copy Share Image
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes? — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very… — John Romero Copy Share Image
Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white… — Carrie Newcomer Copy Share Image
That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a family where your dad had been imprisoned, had been tortured, and came to America with nothing, washing dishes for 50 cents an hour. That was perhaps the most formative experience of my childhood, is being raised in that… — Ted Cruz Copy Share
Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds.… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
