A Quote by Mitch Hedberg

We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".

Mitch Hedberg

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Mitch Hedberg
American - Comedian
February 24, 1968 - March 30, 2005

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

Madame de Stael

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

Walter de La Mare

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

Adrian Rogers

Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

George Orwell

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Josh Billings

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Francis Bacon

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

Confucius

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

Ivan Panin

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

Pema Chodron

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.