Bread quotes
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"I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already."
"What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came."
"Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!"
"*Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!"
"And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread... is not always about what the patent is like, or what the factory is like - it's about can you get your idea to spread, or not."
"Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure."
"Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art."
"To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread."
"Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy."
"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
"He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread."
"Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with."
"Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad."
"Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard."
"Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread."
"Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog."
"Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread."
"All griefes with bread are lesse."
"Anothers bread costs deare."
"Every day brings his bread with it."
