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  • Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

    Lying   Poverty   Etc  
  • I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

  • If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

    Spiritual   Men   Camels  
  • Don't let the bastards grind you down.

    Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

    Horse   Coffee   Beer  
  • I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

  • One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

  • Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.96
  • At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.

    Eye   Psychosis   Ice  
  • My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

  • We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

    Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.477, Oxford University Press
  • There's more than one way to be a girl

  • Who spit in your porridge?

    Spit   Porridge  
    Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
  • The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

  • What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

    Distance   Giving   Bed  
  • The early bird catches the worm.

    Wisdom   Italian   Bird  
  • The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

  • Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.

    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2829, Bantam
  • Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

    Pie   Age   Porridge  
    William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166
  • Worried about a skin condition? Leap smartly into a bath of porridge.

    Skins   Baths   Worried  
  • Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice Cream. I give you lots of kisses, And I give lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches With bugs In.

    Girl   Nice   Kissing  
    Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.187, A&C Black
  • It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

    Sports   Practice   Eggs  
  • I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

    Food   Men   Cooking  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.258
  • Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

    Depth   Syrup   Wonderful  
    "Yotam Ottolenghi's butternut squash and tahini spread recipe, plus batata harra" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.
  • There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

    Running   Book   People  
    Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
  • There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

    Running   Buddhist   Book  
    Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
  • Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.” Sugar Beth : “Well, that sure does leave me out.” Colin : “Exactly. With agreeable women, I’m unendingly considerate. Gallant even.” Sugar Beth : “But with tarts like me, the gloves are off, is that it?” Colin : “I wouldn’t exactly call you a tart. But then, I tend to be broad-minded.” She suppressed the urge to dump her porridge in his lap.

    Weakness   Doe   Lap  
  • Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  • The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

    Paris   Syrup   London  
    "Marianne Faithfull: 'My father belonged to a commune, and the food was always ghastly" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.
  • Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

    Fun   World   Porridge  
    Twitter post from Apr 15, 2014
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