Quotes About Cheese
“How can you govern a country which has 246 kinds of cheese?” –Charles De Gaulle
“If you’ve ever tried to scour a sink with Parmesan cheese, you know the wisdom of reading labels first.” –Dereck Williamson
“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains, cheese, milk’s leap toward immortality.” –Clifton Fadiman
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” –G.K. Chesterton
“When cheese gets it’s picture taken, what does it say?” –George Carlin
“A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye.” –Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?” –Bertolt Brecht
“Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.” –Italo Calvino
“Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.” –Dennis Miller
“Swiss Cheese is a rip-off! It’s the only cheese I can bite into and miss!” –Mitch Hedberg
“My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can’t say cheese.” –Jay London
“A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.” –W.H. Auden
“Never try to eat the holes in Swiss Cheese.” –Robert Campbell
“Cheese. The adult form of milk.” –Richard Condon
“Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.” –M.F.K. Fisher
“Cheese is the biscuit of drunkards.” –Grimod de La Reynière
“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” –M. F. K. Fisher
“Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You’re some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I’m the cheese.” –William H. Macy
“The king’s cheese is half wasted in parings; but no matter, ’tis made of the people’s milk.” –Benjamin Franklin
“Claret, dear, not Coca-Cola, When you’re having Gorgonzola….” –William Cole
“Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?” –Job, speaking to God
“Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
“People who know nothing about cheeses reel away from Camembert, Roquefort, and Stilton because the plebeian proboscis is not equipped to differentiate between the sordid and the sublime.” –Harvey Day
