Pottage Quotes
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Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it’s precious, too. You can’t just throw it away or let it slip away. You can’t sell it for bread and pottage.
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More Pottage Quotes
Esau sells his birthright for a mess of pottage.
Bible (Old Testament)— 1560 Chapter heading for Genesis 25 (in the Geneva Bible).
Esausaid,Behold,Iamatthe pointto die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day: and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and roseup, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 25:32-4.
Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."
Plutarch— The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 14.
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
tobias smollett— Tobias Smollett, Humphrey Clinker.
Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.
john gay— John Gay, Shepherd's Week, Monday, line 46.
Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."
— The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 14.
