Quotes About Soup
“Only the pure of heart can make good soup.” –Beethoven
“When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.” –Vanna White
“Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.” –Jay Leno
“An old-fashioned vegetable soup, without any enhancement, is a more powerful anticarcinogen than any known medicine.” –James Duke, M.D.
“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.” –Abraham Maslow
“A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.” –Henny Youngman
“Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is the rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.” –Fran Lebowitz
“Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.” –Louis P. De Gouy
“No, I don’t take soup. You can’t build a meal on a lake.” –Elsie de Wolfe
“Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life.” –Sydney Smith
“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
“Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.” –Clementine Paddleford
“Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?” –Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Soup is liquid comfort.” –Unknown
“The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.” –Margaret Halsey
“Between soup and love, the first is better.” –Spanish Proverb
“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king.” –Louis Bromfield
“I live on good soup, not on fine words.” –Moliere
“I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.” –Spalding Gray
“The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.” –Bob Hope
“Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things.” –Russian Proverb
“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.” –Morgan Freeman
“Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.” –P. G. Wodehouse
