Stirring Quotes About Soup

"A first-rate soup is more creative 

than a second-rate painting."

~  Abraham Maslow

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

~  Ludwig van Beethoven

"An idealist is one who, on noticing 

that roses smell better than a cabbage, 

concludes that it will also make better soup."

~  H.L. Mencken

"I live on good soup, not on fine words."

~  Molière

"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a 

cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."

~  P.G. Wodehouse

"Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient 

enhances the others; each batch has its 

own characteristics; and it needs time

to simmer to reach full flavor."

~  Marge Kennedy

"I've sat looking down into a volcano that could 

blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark 

and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula 

walk across my hand; and I ate rat soup."

~  Alan Alda

"What does 'good in bed' mean to me? 

When I'm sick and stay home from school 

propped up with lots of pillows watching TV 

and my mom brings me soup. That's 'good in bed.'"

~  Brooke Shields

"When I was having that alphabet soup, 

I never thought that it would pay off."

~  Vanna White

"The only thing chicken 

about Israel is their soup."

~  Bob Hope

"Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard."

~  Wallace Shawn

"A page of my journal is like a portable soup. 

A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."

~  James Boswell

"What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook 

– it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, 

the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables."

~  Julia Child

"That's one thing I get neurotic about: 

I need my soup to be crazy hot."

~  Chrissy Teigen

Weird Quotes About Beans And Rice

While we're on a "Weird" theme here, why not some weird food quotes too? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  "I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all."  ~  Mitch Hedberg, comedian

2)  "Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans and brains on the ceiling."  ~  Wavy Gravy, activist

3)  "The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything! Everyone should wear jeans and have three t-shirts, and eat rice and beans."  ~  Bill Hicks, comedian

4)  "There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."  ~  Marcelene Cox, writer

5)  "Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice."  ~  Pam Grier, actress

6)  "Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!"  ~  Alex Kapranos, musician

7)  "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."  ~  Mitch Hedberg, comedian

8)  "When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios."  ~  Henry David Thoreau, writer

9)  "I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat anymore, I now eat rice cutlets."  ~  Vladimir Lenin, politician

10)  "Talk doesn't cook rice."  ~  Chinese Proverb