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Bread Quotes - Page 10

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.334

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.86

I like to think of bread as really bland cake.

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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1826, e-artnow

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.207