Famous quotes containing the words sweet, cream and/or butter:
“dost thou smile? O, thy sweet face!
Would God Himself He might thee see!
No doubt thou wouldst soon purchase grace,
I know right well, for thee and me:”
—Nicholas Breton (15421626)
“If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort,who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.”
—Hermann Goering (18931946)
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