Top 100 Quotes About Vinegar
#1. It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Mindy McGinnis
#2. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
William Shenstone
#3. I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.
Anthony Bourdain
#4. The sleeping beauty in the fairy tale was awakened by the kiss of her prince. Finley woke up to the over-whelming and oh-so-not-delightful smell of vinegar.
"Bloody hell!" She cried, lurching upright.
Kady Cross
#5. You cannot taste the oil until you pour out the vinegar.
Shauna Niequist
#6. The plain white vinegar sold in gallon jugs in stores is particularly unsuitable for a health treatment, since it is made from petroleum and is completely synthetic.
Kim DeWalt
#7. Daemon: Ever hear the saying you catch more lions with honey than vinegar?
Katy: I think it's 'catch more bees' and not lions.
Daemon: Whatever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#8. With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#9. When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream ...
William Butler Yeats
#10. Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the smell, too, bitter as overripe vinegar, intrusive as bile.
Nancy E. Turner
#12. A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.
Fernand Point
#13. Shahrzad paused. Then made a decision. Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
Renee Ahdieh
#14. My research methods were extremely advanced. I Googled vinegar.
E.J. Stevens
#15. I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.
Jessica Alba
#16. For example, you can eat a Caesar salad and say, "Wow, I ate so healthy today." You forget there was a quarter-cup of oil in there, and all the calories are from fat. So it's better if you eat a grilled chicken breast, some steamed brown rice, and a little salad with balsamic vinegar on top.
Wolfgang Puck
#18. Drinking diluted apple cider everyday will make you feel energetic and halt midday sugar cravings. It primarily keeps the digestion in good shape. It also maintains the right balance of insulin and hormonal levels. People with diabetes can benefit from a daily intake of diluted apple cider vinegar.
Steven Cumberland
#19. You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.
Mark Twain
#20. You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies aren't too picky, when you come to it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#21. Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine
A sad, sour sober beverage
by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.
Lord Byron
#23. If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
Harold Wilson
#24. -I will bathe in vinegar, down some raw eggs, and start looking for a wasp nest ASAP to put on my head.
-I do not understand this.
-To reverse the leanings of the heart. Ancient family wisdom.
-Ah. Very good. In my family, we just suffer.
Jandy Nelson
#25. Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
Thomas Gainsborough
#27. Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.
Ilona Andrews
#28. All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#29. Dubbed a miracle ingredient, apple cider vinegar does not only help with weight loss, but it is also believed to be great for your skin, hair, overall health and even your household.
Amy Allen
#30. Mind you, it's all bullshit with wine, isn't it? It's just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.
Ozzy Osbourne
#31. Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle appealing manner- Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous.
Agatha Christie
#32. Nobody appreciates a woman with vinegar in her soul." ~ Melkin to Rachel
C.J. Redwine
#33. But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious"
"Like salt and vinegar potato chips"
"Exactly
Chloe Neill
#34. It's too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn't got white wine in it. Has it?
Amy Winehouse
#35. Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Samuel Johnson
#37. Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life's vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and good whiskey at that.
Neil Gaiman
#38. He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.
Ken Follett
#39. Take 3 ~ 4 times in one day, the mixture of one tablespoon of honey, 2 tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar and 8 ounces of water.
Sonia
#40. I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.
Masaharu Morimoto
#41. oxymel, a honey and vinegar drink used for the treatment of fever, pain, or whatever else the peddler thinks they need to say to sell the swill. Now that was just sad.
C.A.A. Allen
#42. I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
Sam Riley
#43. The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.
Mark Twain
#44. That love we have for mothers has to be cut with vinegar, and maybe even acid. Otherwise, it will overwhelm us. She will overwhelm us.
Stephanie Powell Watts
#45. This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#46. Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
Langston Hughes
#47. They give me the killers of our race, the ones full of piss and napalm and vinegar.
Pierce Brown
#48. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah you're vinegar! Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again!
James Joyce
#49. My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.
Maggie Stiefvater
#51. When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.
Steve Toltz
#52. the question is not whether more flies can be caught with honey than with vinegar, but why the flies are being caught in either case - and how this feels to the fly.
Alfie Kohn
#53. Vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt,
Francine Prose
#54. Humans have very odd tastes. They think their music is beautiful. They are wrong. It is awful. All of it. And they completely ignore their greatest accomplishments: the cinnamon bun, the Snickers bar, the hot pepper, and the refreshing beverage called vinegar.
Katherine Applegate
#55. Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
Julian Barnes
#56. No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [ ... ] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.
David Gemmell
#57. To remove product buildup from your hair, mix a tablespoon of vinegar in your hand with your favorite shampoo and rub through your hair. Concentrate on applying from the ends up and leave in for three to five minutes for beautifully clean hair with amazing shine!
Ted Gibson
#58. She had camouflaged the vinegar factory in her character with a great honeycomb along the sills and porches of her public self.
Pat Conroy
#59. And vinegar that makes them sour - and camomile that makes them bitter - and - and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know -
Lewis Carroll
#60. Rabbi Heshel said: "A man should be like a vessel that willingly receives what its owner pours into it, whether it be wine or vinegar.
Martin Buber
#61. I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.
Sue Townsend
#62. Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
Deb Caletti
#63. We weren't so much oil and vinegar as a lit match and napalm.
Lola Dodge
#64. Apple cider vinegar and honey has been ingested for years as a mixture. It helps with aging, with detoxification and as a natural healer.
Donna Langely
#65. An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.
Benjamin Franklin
#66. Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
Benjamin Hoff
#67. A file of red-coated soldiers came at the quick-march from the other end of the quay, splitting the crowd like vinegar dropped on mayonnaise.
Diana Gabaldon
#68. When we'd finished our ice creams Mum produced two cheese salad rolls, two packets of salt-and-vinegar crisps, two mini chocolate rolls, two apples, two bananas and two cartons of orange juice.
Jacqueline Wilson
#69. You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.
Jerry Lewis
#70. A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed
Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
Lewis Carroll
#72. Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar."
I did a quick translation. "Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?"
He grinned. "It sounds better in French."
Yeah, but did it taste better?
Karen Chance
#73. And had a face like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle ...
Terry Pratchett
#74. Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you'll catch more flies, if nothing else.
Cassandra King
#75. We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed
Janet Chapman
#76. If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus
#77. Life should be like a basket of chicken wings: salty, full of fat and vinegar, and surrounded by celery you'll never actually eat, even when you're greedily sopping up the last viscous streaks of buffalo sauce from the wax paper with your spit-stained index finger. Yes,
Joseph Fink
#78. Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
Gail Simmons
#79. You do not get more with honey than with vinegar.
Larry Kramer
#80. The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.
Paul Newman
#81. Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John Paul II
#82. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
But what if I don't want to catch the flies? What if I'd rather see them swatted?
Mindy McGinnis
#83. One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.
Henry IV Of France
#84. According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
John Gerard
#85. Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.
Philip Zimbardo
#86. Licorice steeped in vinegar, with honey and cloves. It will give you some strength and clear your head.
George R R Martin
#87. When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.
Stephanie Beacham
#88. The vending machine lacked the willpower of the Western elevator, and it dutifully spat out several chocolate bars and a packet of salt and vinegar chips. I gave you more money than that, thought William, and the vending machine gave him some more.
Kit Abbey
#89. I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.
Bernie Marsden
#90. There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?
William Morley Punshon
#91. Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
Benjamin Franklin
#92. So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".
Tim Vine
#93. Is it white wine? Red tastes like vinegar.'
'Of course it's white wine, I'm Japanese.
Natasha Pulley
#94. In a blind taste, balsamic vinegar actually makes it taste better).
Dan Ariely
#95. Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.
Orrin Woodward
#96. Stale words, what are they worth?
A moment comes and God help those for whom it never comes.
When love of such nobility possesses this shaking frame
That even the sweetest word, the ultimate honey, stings like vinegar.
Edmond Rostand
#97. People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
Rick Kaplan
#98. Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
Oliver Goldsmith
#99. We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer.
Suzanne Somers
#100. I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.
Mary J. Blige
