Don King
Promoter
"If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce."
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Sauce
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite."
Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, Poet
"...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul."
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce."
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does."
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"An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins."
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"I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate."
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"Hunger is the best sauce."
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"I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment."
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"Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling."
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"I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce."
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"Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce."
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"Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes."
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"Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for."
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"The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce."
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"The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending."
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"They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here."
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"I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE."
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"Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that."
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"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."
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"A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger."
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"Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born."
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"I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside."
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"thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce."
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"Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything."
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