Quotations about Soup
Some of us want soup. Others want soup. Still others prefer soup. ~Percy Keese Fitzhugh, Roy Blakeley: Lost, Strayed or Stolen, 1921
Mrs. Jakes had sent up stew and apple pie. "Oh, good," said Miss Marcy. "Stew's so comforting on a rainy day." ~Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
"Only a pot of broth, but plenty of health." That's a good proverb. Go by it. ~Leo Tolstoy, The Pathway of Life, translated by Archibald J. Wolfe, 1919
The nice thing about soup for dinner is if company comes just add a little more water. ~Thomas Benjamin "Tom" Sims, 1925
Every cloud has a silver lining and every plate of vegetable soup is filled with vegetables. ~W. C. Fields, 1934
SYLVIE: What's the soup made of, Bruno?
BRUNO: Bits of things!
~Lewis Carroll, "The Frogs' Birthday-Treat," Sylvie and Bruno, 1889
Sydney Smith has a very lively passage in his "Memoirs" to shew that too much soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. ~H., "How to Mend the Temper," 1856 [The author must be referring to this passage, which is all I can find, but if anyone knows of something else please let me know: "I was seized with sudden giddiness, so as to fall, and for twenty-two hours was affected by violent pain. I kept my bed that day, and was weak and languid for some days after. Mr. Lyddon attributes it to indigestion. If this is the way nature punishes us for the consumption of indigestible food, I am sure it is worth while to be strictly temperate; I will therefore, in future, avoid soup and fish, and confine myself to one dish. I must not only attend to quantity, but quality. I may not be able to do this, — then I must die or be ill; but I am sure it is the best wisdom to do it."
You can't eat soup out of a paper bag. ~Percy Keese Fitzhugh, Roy Blakeley: Lost, Strayed or Stolen, 1921
...the woman assisting in the kitchen had mistaken the soup for dirty water and had thrown it away...
The greatest enemy to wit I know of is cold soup. ~Charles Searle, Look Here!, 1885
You like science, don't ya? Chili is science. It's chemistry, son. See, chili represents your three states of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas. ~Roseanne, "Don't Make Me Over," 1992, written by Maxine Lapiduss, Don Foster, and Sid Youngers
Homemade soup has extra nourishment that store-bought will never have. Love, broth, and salt can heal many things. ~Terri Guillemets
HOW TO GET TURTLE INTO THE SOUP
—Have amusements of turtle censored. Turtle will think life not worth living. Rush to fish market.
—Inform turtle soup is opportunity for service. Turtle will be sold on idea.
—Turn advertisement writers loose on turtle. Turtle will read ads. Be fooled. Think soup blessed state.
—Throw pictures of soup on silver screen. Release to turtle. Turtle will be intrigued. Will leap for pan.
—Read pessimistic philosophers to turtle. Turtle will be discouraged. Think soup inevitable. Accept fate.
—Engage good comedian. Comedian will ridicule turtle. Make mock turtle soup.
~W. W. Scott, in LIFE, 1926 [This tickles my LOL bone every time I read it.