A Quote by John Heywood

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

John Heywood

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Bread Know Side Which

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John Heywood
English - Dramatist
1497 - 1580

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Mike Patton

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

You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

J. B. Smoove

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

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

Jimmy Hoffa

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

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

Louisa May Alcott

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.