Fran Lebowitz
Author, Essayist
"A salad is not a meal, it is a style."
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Salad
82 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Beyonce Knowles
Singer
"The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"My salad days, When I was green in judgment."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad."
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"You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad."
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"I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden."
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""Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state."
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"In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves."
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"Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig and chèvre salad at least once a week and that's a combo that's hard to beat."
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"I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad."
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"I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad."
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"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door."
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"I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing."
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"It was a salad bar of phobias"
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"Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all."
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"Im straight... But my girl a faggot... Potato on the barrel... Potato salad"
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"High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly."
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"Usually New York has lousy salads."
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"Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze."
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"Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!"
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"A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how."
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"One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal."
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