"Random Soup, the wonder of all ernity"
   Leo the philosopher

   "Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?"
   Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

   "I live on good soup, not on fine words."
   Moliere

   "Only the pure of heart can make good soup"
   Beethoven

   "Soup must be eaten boiling hot and coffee drunk piping hot."
   Grimod de La Reynière

   "An old-fashioned vegetable soup, without any enhancement, is a more powerful anticarcinogen than any known medicine."
   James Duke M.D.(U.S.D.A.)

   "The word soupe, is French, but extremely bourgeois; it is well to serve potage and not soupe."
   Dictionnaire de Trévoux (18th Century)

   "Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?"
   Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

   "It [soup] breathes reassurance, it offers consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability...There is nothing like a bowl of hot soup, it's wisp of aromatic steam teasing the nostrils into quivering anticipation."
   Louis P. DeGouy, Waldorf-Astoria chef), The Soup Book (1949)

   "Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm."
   Charles Day, Hints on Etiquette (1844)

   "Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life."
   Sydney Smith

   "It [soup] is to a dinner what a portico or a peristyle is to a building; that is to say, it is not only the first part of it, but it must be devised in such a manner as to set the tone of the whole banquet, in the same way as the overture of an opera announces the subject of the work."
   Grimod de la Reynière

   "Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention."
   Auguste Escoffier

   "Soup of the evening, beautiful..."
   Lewis Carroll

   "A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
   Abraham Maslow

   "Between soup and love, the first is better."
   old Spanish saying

   "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
   H.L. Mencken

   "I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience."
   'Saki' (Hector Hugh Munro), Scottish writer (1870-1916)

   "What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless."
   Gustave Flaubert

   "Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite." Auguste Escoffier