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Porridge Quotes

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Miguel de Cervantes
Porridge, Miscellaneous, Breaths
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.96

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

Stephen Fry
Fun, World, Porridge
Twitter post from Apr 15, 2014

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

Richard Gregory
Understanding, Brain, Porridge

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Paul Davies
Ideas, Fairy Tale, Porridge

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

William Shakespeare
Pie, Age, Porridge
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

Fergus Henderson
Feel Good, London, Porridge

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

Fergus Henderson
Urban, Lifestyle, Porridge

Who spit in your porridge?

Jodi Picoult
Spit, Porridge
Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

Donald Miller
Bird, Today, Porridge
"Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance". Book by Donald Miller, 2000.

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