Soup Quotes

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

Roses, Smell, Idealist

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn

Strength, Greatest, Sense

A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
Henny Youngman

Help, Woman, Made

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
Orson Welles

Purpose, Taking, Hollywood

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Good, Heart, Pure

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

Creative, Painting

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Good, Heart, Lie

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan

Raining, Irish, Forks

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere

Good, Live, Words

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Moliere

Good, Beautiful, Language

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
Dylan Moran

Women, Try, Anybody

What's a soup kitchen?
Paris Hilton

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
P. G. Wodehouse

Best, Memories, Cheap

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
Morgan Freeman

Best, Food, Weather

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
Bob Hope

Israel, Chicken

Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
Elayne Boosler

Away, Party, Notice

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Herman Melville

Truth, Him, Living

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.
Curtis Stone

Big, Once, Monday

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
Camille Paglia

Time, Art, Hero

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
Pete Townshend

Work, Best, Took

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
Carlos Santana

Spiritual, Two, Flower

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
Sonya Levien

Good, Enough, Put

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
Alan Alda

Down, Moment, Looking

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
Leon Askin

Morning, Evening, Coffee

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!
Brandon Boyd

Moving, Made, Around

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.
Eric McCormack

Funny, Great, Home

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
Patti Smith

Rock, Dream, Brand

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf

Good, Manners, Eating

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
Richard Simmons

Work, Diet, Lose

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell

May, Cake, Journal

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