Buttered Bread Quotes

#1. Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

Paul Cezanne

#2. She was going to eat warm, buttered bread and feel better.

Jill Shalvis

#3. The idea of a sandwich as a snack goes back to Roman times. Scandinavians perfected the technique with the Danish open-faced sandwich, or smorroebrod, consisting of thinly sliced, buttered bread and many delectable toppings.

DeeDee Stovel

#4. Something wonderful happens when you melt cheese between two pieces of buttered bread. The sight and the smell universally evoke smiles; it's magical. Everyone can relate

Heidi Gibson

#5. A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

Joyce Brothers

#6. I'm glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

Diane Samuels

#7. I know on which side my bread is buttered.

John Heywood

#8. Death is only final when you know you're not going to see them again!

Evinda Lepins

#9. Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

Stevie Smith

#10. I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#11. The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

Murphy's Law

#12. Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

Ludwig Borne

#13. The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

Berenice Abbott

#14. You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.

Gracie Allen

#15. I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

Jesse Jackson

#16. Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

Louisa May Alcott

#17. There is excellent provision made of dainty new bread, crusty twists, cool fresh butter, thin slices of ham, tongue, and German sausage, and delicate little rows of anchovies nestling in parsley, not to mention new-laid eggs, to be brought up warm in a napkin, and hot buttered toast. For

Charles Dickens

#18. Well it looks like the road to heaven
But it feels like the road to hell
When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I took the knife as well
Posing for another picture
Everybody's got to sell
But when you shake your ass
They notice fast
And some mistakes were built to last.

George Michael

#19. I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

Mignon McLaughlin

#20. My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

Brigham Young

#21. Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.

Walton Goggins

#22. A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Jimmy Hoffa

#23. Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Ambrose Bierce

#24. I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.

Gracie Allen

#25. The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

Laurie Colwin

#26. This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered.

Ian McEwan

#27. You have buttered your bread. Now you must lie on it.

Beverly Rycroft

#28. Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

Zig Ziglar

#29. I put myself in a position of authority where if I get judged, I get scrutinized. So if I get caught slipping, than I have to reap the repercussions of it. That is the game I'm in and people will judge you, you just have to get over it.

Damon Dash