Dry Bread Quotes

#1. Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.

George Herbert

#2. Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Victor Hugo

#3. A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

Ellen Glasgow

#4. I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread if he tells himself that at any moment a stranger will bequeath to him his fortune. We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies.

Marcel Proust

#5. Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread - and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm! Phew, how utterly petty it all is!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Let's not muddy the brook ; Perhaps a pigeon is drinking water at a distance, Or a pitcher is being filled in a village, Or a dervish may be dipping dry bread in the brook.
The folk upstream understand the water.
They did not muddy the brook. We also must not muddy the brook...

Sohrab Sepehri

#7. Give dry bread to a rich kid and he will throw it into the dustbin, give it to the poor kid and he will remember your name for the rest of his days

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#8. When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#9. Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry bread, stimulated by a need of material procreation, which has become a habit to it. None

Honore De Balzac

#11. As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

Ivan Pavlov

#12. No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Ezra Pound

#13. I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

Sergio Aragones

#14. Sanity is not statistical.

George Orwell

#15. Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource.

Kristen Lamb

#16. I will get your some clothes, a sword, and your very own assassin to join you on your quest."
"Ooh, just what I've always wanted. A man whose job title had the word ass in it not once, but two times.

Quinn Loftis

#17. The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

Ibn Taymiyyah

#18. We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us.

Tanya Masse

#19. Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?

Georgia O'Keeffe

#20. Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.

Robin Williams

#21. Animals that live in large peaceful societies seem to violate the laws of evolution (such as competition and survival of the fittest), but only until you learn a bit more about evolution.

Jonathan Haidt

#22. Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Barbara Walters

#23. A man who loves his mother too much is someone who can never love his wife enough.

Adam Ross

#24. Better a dry crust of bread with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

King David

#25. We've visited a lot, but being a visitor is very different from living in Hawaii, especially when you're going to high school.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#26. This, said Mother, as she handed him a piece of dry, tasteless matzoh, is the bread of our affliction. Where, young Kugel wondered, is the seven-layer cake of our salvation? Where is the muffin of our mirth? Where is our no-longer-reduced-to-jelly doughnut?

Shalom Auslander