Top 118 Vinegar Quotes & Sayings

Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

A splash of red wine vinegar can pull things together like a pinch of salt.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things!

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.

I don't really do anything too crazy for beauty. I try to take a shot of apple cider vinegar a day.

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

I'm actually allergic to sulfate - so I can't have vinegar, and I can't drink wine.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

I can't understand why anyone would want to reduce vinegar.

Red wine vinegar has some personality as well acidity.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave... Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

My dad used to eat raw tripe soaked in malt vinegar when I was a kid.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

I love sushi. A well made roll with just enough vinegar tang has always been a lifesaving post-bourbon remedy for me.

Fish and chips by nature are greasy, so we put vinegar on it and we like it because it helps our digestive system. The vinegar breaks down the fat.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.