Cakes And Ale Quotes & Sayings

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? — William Shakespeare

[Their marriage] will not be all cakes and ale.... They are too much alike to be the ideal match. Patty is thick-skinned and passionate, too ready to be hurt to the heart by the mere little pinpricks and mosquito bites of life; and Paul is proud and crotchety, and, like the great Napoleon, given to kick the fire with his boots when he is put out. There will be many little gusts of temper, little clouds of misunderstanding, disappointments, and bereavements, and sickness of mind and body; but with all this, they will find their lot so blessed, by reason of the mutual love and sympathy tat, through all the vicissitudes, will surely grow deeper and stronger every day they live together, that they will not know how to conceive a better one. — Ada Cambridge

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale. — Keith Ward

Sir Toby Belch: "Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night) — William Shakespeare

Loaves of fig and pepper bread, of course. But there was also lasagna cooked in miniature pumpkins, and pumpkin-seed brittle. Roasted red pepper soup, and spiced caramel potato cakes. Corn muffins and brown sugar popcorn balls and a dozen cupcakes, each with a different frosting, because what was first frost without frosting? Pear beer and clove ginger ale in dark bottles sat in the icy beverage tub. They ate well into the afternoon, and the more they ate, the more food there seemed to be. Pretzel buns and cranberry cheese and walnuts appearing, just when they thought they'd tasted everything. — Sarah Addison Allen

During our last year in the mountains new people came deep into our lives and nothing was ever the same again. The winter of the avalanches was like a happy and innocent winter in childhood compared to the next winter, a nightmare winter disguised as the greatest fun of all, and the murderous summer that was to follow. It was that year that the rich showed up. — Ernest Hemingway,

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats — Charles Spurgeon

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work. — W. Allen Wallis

I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with. — W. Somerset Maugham

Preceding affections, in the world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. — Aesop

Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action, — Simon Scarrow

Don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, — Richard Feynman