Sugar quotes
200 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives."
"You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar."
"Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me."
"You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses."
"Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt."
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"The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan."
"The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor."
"Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis."
"We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."
"From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet."
"Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation."
"red hair is caused by sugar and lust."
"And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied."
"We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy."
"Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner."
"If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt."
"The Music was like Electric Sugar"
"Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole."
"Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words"
"For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar."
"Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat."
"Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!"
"Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms."
"Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar."
"Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace."
