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  • There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.

    Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.233
  • If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

    In 'Observer' 11 November 1962
  • I used to go to this store called Draeger's and you had a little bit of that same feeling because this was a store that offered you so many varieties, things you'd never contemplated before, you know like 250 mustards and vinegars and over 500 different kinds of fruits and vegetables, or over 2 dozen different types of water.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • 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 (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

  • Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

    Wine   Vinegar   Sun  
    George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.238
  • 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".

    Funny   Humor   Want  
    Tim Vine (2012). “The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition”, p.110, Random House
  • It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.

    Eggs   Black   Cadavers  
  • Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  • Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

    Fear   Smell   Scent  
    Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.77, Anchor
  • The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

    Wine   Power   White  
    William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.124
  • I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

    Wine   Long   Campaigns  
  • You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

    Hard Work   Use   May  
  • My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

  • 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.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • 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.

    Sweet   Mind   Messages  
  • Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

    Chocolate   Hot   Today  
  • Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

    In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 5 October 1773
  • 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.

    Food   Years   Practice  
  • I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

    Vinegar   Enough   Bloody  
    Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.252, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • 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.

    Roots   Teeth   Half  
    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

    Wine   Despair   Vinegar  
  • People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

    Wine   People   Age  
  • He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

    Pain   Fall   Heart  
    Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press
  • You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

    Love   Life   Optimistic  
    Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.29, Penguin
  • Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

    Oil   Agreement   Sugar  
    'Retaliation' (1774) l. 11.
  • You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

    Honey   Vinegar  
    "You Can Never Not Fight Back!". Interview with Alisa Solomon, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2004.
  • One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

    Bait   Twenties   Honey  
  • I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible honor means that I represent the piss and vinegar, the energy, the defiance, the musicality of the Funk Brothers and Motown and Mitch Ryder and Bob Seger, Brownsville Station and Grand Funk Railroad and Eminem and Jack White and Kid Rock - are you kidding me?

    Brother   Mean   Kids  
  • 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 (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1152, Delphi Classics
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