Quotes of Sweeten - somelinesforyou

“ Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt. ”

- Sandra Boynton

“ When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. ”

- William Faulkner

“ Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. ”

- John Ciardi

“ Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. ”

- Alan Perlis

“ It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast. ”

- John Huston

“ With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. ”

- Alex Levine

“ Aah! Hey, get off my sugar. Bad bees! Bad! Ow. Oww! Oh, they're defending themselves somehow! ”

- Homer Simpson

“ At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears. ”

- Summer Sanders

“ All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup. ”

- Julia Ward Howe

“ A man without a mustache is like tea without sugar. ”

- English Saying

“ Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ So-called good advice is always served with compliments and sprinkled with sugar. I don't like sugar. ”

- Victoria Wolff

“ Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ It isn't the flavor of coconut that troubles me, but the texture I feel as if I'm chewing on a sweetened cuticle. ”

- Steve Almond

“ The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often. ”

- Laura Palmer

“ Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Everything is sweetened by risk. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it. ”

- Pamela Glenconner

“ In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus
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