A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

John Heywood

I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

Mignon McLaughlin

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

Joyce Brothers

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

Ludwig Borne

I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.

Gracie Allen

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.

Robertson Davies

You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.

Gracie Allen

Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.

Henry Miller

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

Mike Patton

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Jimmy Hoffa

Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

Louisa May Alcott

A slice of perfectly buttered, warm-from-the-oven bread has been known to bring tears to my eyes.

Kim Brooks

Give me buttered white bread with Marmite crisps and salad cream and I'm a happy girl.

Nadiya Hussain

In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?