Browsing Topic Best Bread And Butter Quotes

Man can not live by bread alone … he must have peanut butter.

In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. […] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.

… Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.

The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

The Army was my bread and butter.

It’s cool to know that you’re doing something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy, even though my bread and butter is a little dirtier. It’s cool to just be involved in something that’s that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.

It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called ‘children’s books.’ I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

Ultimately, these fans that we’re blessed enough to have, the ones who pay money for tickets to come see us live, that’s the bread and butter. That’s the basis of what this is. Before I ever had the chance to record an album, the live show is what it’s been about.

Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

I’ve always enjoyed mixing and mingling with the Tasmanian community and that’s, if you like, the bread and butter of politics. And from my perspective, it’s meant more time at home, which I also enjoy and it’s also meant the greater interaction with the Tasmanian community. And it’s also given me freedom to speak out.

Men are my bread and butter. It’s what I live for! I have no shame about that.

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

It’s nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

I had an excellent repast – the best repast possible – which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ….It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it’s hard to beat bread and butter.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that’s crazy.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love’s sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels’ eyes, and rings well upon God’s touchstone.

As for bread, I count that for nothin’. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that’s raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game’s good as a relish and so’s bread; but pork is the staff of life… My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

I won’t quarrel with my bread and butter.

Not a deed would he do,Not a word would he utter,Till he’s weighed its relationTo plain bread and butter.

A man’s bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.