Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

Ambrose Bierce

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

Carrie Underwood

Doing the weekly shopping, I stock up on stir-fry kits, Amy's meatless burgers, and armloads of onions and garlic. I put onions and garlic in everything.

Chrissy Teigen

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

Michael Pollan

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

Graham Greene

...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

Kenneth Grahame

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

Jonathan Swift

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Bill Maher

You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But I would say that, first of all, all those things can be accomplished without religion. You can be ethical, somebody who does the right thing without feeling that he has to in order to get his ass saved in the next life.

Elie Wiesel

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

Johnny Knoxville

She threw up from soup on my shoes,

Arlie Russell Hochschild

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.

Jack Canfield

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

Doug Larson

Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose.

Dan Harmon

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

Clive James

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

Dylan Moran

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

Charlie Chaplin

More than machinery, we need humanity.

Charlie Chaplin

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Charlie Chaplin

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

Charlie Chaplin

We think too much and feel too little.

Charles Wagner

Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise.

Charles Dudley Warner

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

Charles Dickens

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

Charles Sturt

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Spurgeon

A good character is the best tombstone.