William E. Simon Quotes

The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

William E. Simon

• Advantage
• Failing
• Cheese
• Cauliflower

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Wine
  • France
  • Cheese

• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Failing
  • Organizations

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• I like mac and cheese.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Like
  • Cheese
  • Mac

• My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Purpose
  • Cheese

• Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Just
  • Cheese

• In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Friends
  • Free
  • Me

• Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Care
  • Meat
  • Cheese

• He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Advantage
  • Paradox

• Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Thing
  • Advantage

• The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Politics

• The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • People
  • Great
  • Struggle

• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Up
  • Women
  • Winning

• The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Freedom
  • Team
  • Responsibility

• I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Love
  • Career

• Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Study
  • Failing
  • Sake

• There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

  

  Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Death
  • Lose
  • Advantage

• If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

  

  Plato
  • Army
  • Governors
  • Dishonour

• Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Question
  • Looks
  • Conscience

• The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

  

  William E. Simon
  • Advantage
  • Failing
  • Cheese