Fine Quote by Walter Scott

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

“Dreams don’t butter the parsnips,”

— Johanna Moran

“Come on, let’s go! Move your butter muffin butt!” “My what?” Mary asked with a surprised look. “Butter muffin butt,” Aja said with a…

— Nicole Renee Wyatt

“Blushes and sighs are all very pretty, but soft words butter no parsnips.”

— Alyssa Everett

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