Butter Quote by Johanna Moran

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

— Walter Scott

And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much…

— D. H. Lawrence

What is this?” he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this… thing?” “A…

— Cassandra Clare

“A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat.”

— Randall Munroe

The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking. As a…

— Harry S.N. Greene

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

— Julia Child

Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler,…

— James A. Owen

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

— Red Smith

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

— Stevie Smith

“This...this...thing?" "A parsnip?" Jem suggested "A parsnip planted in satan's own garden," said Will. He glanced about. "I dont suppose there's a dog I…

— Cassandra Clare

If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.

— Bryce Harper