(22 quotes found)
“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
Calvin Trillin
“Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.”
“Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.”
“Life covered his graduation,”
“The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt”
“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”
“As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”
“The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.”
“The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?”
“Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.”
