Quotations about Salads
’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a
thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
~William Shakespeare (1564–1616), All's Well That Ends Well, c.1602
One of the brightest club-women in America... wittily said: "In good society a woman is known, not by the company she keeps, but by the salads she serves." ~Tildesley & Co., Yacht Club salad dressing advertisement, 1912
The success or failure of any salad lies in the dressing. ~Tildesley & Co., Yacht Club salad dressing advertisement, 1912
To make this condiment, your poet begs
The pounded yellow of two hard-boiled eggs;
Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,
And, half-suspected, animate the whole.
Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown,
And twice with vinegar procured from town;
Of mordant mustard add a single spoon,
(Distrust the condiment that bites so soon;)
But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault,
To add a double quantity of salt.
And, lastly, o'er the flavored compound toss
A magic-spoon of anchovy sauce.
Oh, green and glorious! Oh, herbaceous treat!...
~Sydney Smith (1771–1845), "Receipt for Dressing Salad"
You don't win friends with salad! ~The Simpsons, "Lisa the Vegetarian," 1995, written by David S. Cohen and Dan Greaney
It's a bowl of weeds. ~The West Wing, "Life on Mars," 2003, written by Aaron Sorkin,
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
A bit of cynicism does to conversation what garlic does to a salad. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949
What was left was no more than that breath of garlic in a good salad... ~Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long, 1973
A salad bar is where people go to exchange germs. ~Robert Orben, 2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches, 1984
Here I am eating a salad, which by the way, you can cover this thing with barbecue sauce and it would still taste like the ground. ~The West Wing, "Life on Mars," 2003, written by Aaron Sorkin,
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper...
~William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, c.1606
Excellent salads, according to parson Adams, are to be found in every field; we have garnered from the fertile fields of literature. Should any one be curious to know why we have ventured to select Salad, for the entertainment of the reader, we beg to premise that it has an undoubted preference over a rich ragout, fricassee, or any other celebrated product of culinary art, from the fact that it is suitable to all seasons, as well as all sorts of persons, being a delectable conglomerate of good things, — meats, vegetables, — acids and sweets, — oils, sauces, and other condiments too numerous to detail... ~Frederic Saunders, "A Word Preliminary," Salad for the Solitary (By an Epicure), 1854