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  • I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar. -- Jessica Alba
  • Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. -- Pope John XXIII
  • People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar. -- Rick Kaplan
  • If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar. -- Harold Wilson
  • As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right? -- Andrew Cuomo
  • If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. -- Aeschylus
  • The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. -- Sid Waddell
  • I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time. -- Thomas Gainsborough
  • I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish. -- Masaharu Morimoto
  • You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. -- Mark Twain
  • You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. -- Charlaine Harris
  • A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. -- Samuel Johnson
  • You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate. -- John Lyly
  • There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar? -- William Morley Punshon
  • 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. -- Fernand Point
  • 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
  • A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed! -- Lewis Carroll
  • To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar. -- Oscar Wilde
  • No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [...] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad. -- David Gemmell
  • Vinegar: that's what fear smells like. -- Jennifer Egan
  • Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar? -- Kirby Larson
  • A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard. -- Ogden Nash
  • 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. -- Benjamin Hoff
  • 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. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe. -- Bernie Marsden
  • The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars. -- Paul Newman
  • Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together. -- Gail Simmons
  • I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar. -- Pat Paulsen
  • As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate. -- John Lyly
  • I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good. -- Sirio Maccioni
  • With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
  • We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer. -- Suzanne Somers
  • I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor. -- Sue Townsend
  • I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth. -- Melissa Etheridge
  • I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance. -- Mary J. Blige
  • I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps. -- Sam Riley
  • When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was. -- Stephanie Beacham
  • If you can't afford organic food and are unable to grow your own, it's crucial to wash all inorganic produce very carefully to minimize the toxins you consume. Soak everything for 20 minutes in water with vinegar and salt or water with fresh lemon juice and salt. -- Suzanne Somers
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  • In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England, but at the last minute they transferred me, despite the fact that I spoke not a word of Greek. I learned the very basics, and to this day can say 'oil,' 'vinegar,' and 'boyfriend in America.' -- Julia Quinn
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  • Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. -- C. E. M. Joad
  • You do not get more with honey than with vinegar. -- Larry Kramer
  • The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. -- William Shenstone
  • I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them. -- George Eliot
  • A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar. -- Henry IV of France
  • Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree! -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries. -- Ilona Andrews
  • I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices. -- Mario Batali
  • Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures. -- Orrin Woodward
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  • You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter. -- Jerry Lewis
  • Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
  • There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila. -- Alfred Sturtevant
  • I think love and hate intertwine far too much for humanity's own good, yet we choose to compare them like vinegar and water. -- Emory Sharplin
  • He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar. -- Ken Follett
  • Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated! -- Alice Hegan Rice
  • Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes. -- Susan Rice
  • Mind you, itâ??s all bullshit with wine, isnâ??t it? Itâ??s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say. -- Ozzy Osbourne
  • All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord. -- Ignatius of Loyola
  • 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". -- Tim Vine
  • Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor. -- Lord Byron
  • We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed -- Janet Chapman
  • When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup. -- Steve Toltz
  • The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label. -- Mark Twain
  • Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar. -- Luis Bunuel
  • According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up. -- John Gerard
  • [I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed! -- Vincent de Paul
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