Idealism Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

— H.L. Mencken

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

— H. L. Mencken

“My soup arrived. Crusted with cheese, golden at the edges. The waiter placed it carefully in front of me, and I broke through the…

— Aimee Bender

One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the…

— Louis Pullig De Gouy

Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of…

— Louis Pullig De Gouy

You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it's one of my better dishes.”

— Suzanne Collins

“A rose by any other name Would never, never smell the same And cunning is the nose that knows An onion that's been called…

— Wendell Johnson

“The leftover remains of a human brainstorm might make tasty soup”

— Jarod Kintz

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

— P. G. Wodehouse

“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to…

— Judith Martin