“Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“He receives comfort like cold porridge.”
William Shakespeare
“I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.”
Anjelica Huston
“because they ate mom's oatmeal porridge.”
Dick Pound
“If you watch him in Porridge and Open All Hours you can't believe it's the same person.”
Barry Cryer
“She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway.”
George Eliot
“Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?”
Robert Browning
