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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine. Every man for himself and God for us all.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Miguel de Cervantes

— Chapter 28. (Fifth Book (1564))

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I sat through the first act and heard my lovely lines falling like cold porridge on a damp mattress.


— 1939  One Way of Living, alluding to a performance of his play Marriage is no Joke.

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   There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.


— 1928  'The English Lido' (song).

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Alone in the hissing laboratory of his wishes, Mr Pugh minces among bad vats and jeroboams, tiptoes through spinneys of murdering herbs, agony dancing in his crucibles, and mixes especially for Mrs Pugh a venomous porridge unknown to toxicologists which will scald and viper through her until her ears fall off like figs, her toes grow big and black as balloons, and steam comes screaming out of her navel.


— 1954  Under MilkWood.

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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

Miguel de Cervantes

— Ch. 11. (Part I)

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And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.

Robert Southey

— "The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor (1837) [1]

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Someone’s been eating my porridge said the daddy bear,Someone’s been eating my porridge said the mama bear,Hey Ba-ba Re-bear said the little wee bear someone has broken my chair!

bobby troup

— The Three Bears, first sung by the Page Cavanaugh Trio, 1946

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He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comes May profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums; For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire, Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.

walter scott

— Ch. 17, One of the verses of the ballad "The Barefooted Friar", sung by Friar Tuck to the Black Knight.

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There’s sand in the porridge and sand in the bed . And if this is the pleasure we had rather be dead.


— In p.109 (Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations)

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