yellow or white, creamy or solid food made from the pressed curds of milk From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~ G. K. Chesterton
Cheese is a dairy product derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, the milk is usually acidified, and adding the enzyme rennet causes coagulation. The solids are separated and pressed into final form.
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, XII 1958–71, Shorts II
Un dessert sans fromage est une belle à qui il manqu un œil.
Translation: A desert without cheese is like a beautiful woman missing an eye.
A farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these.
Our Transatlantic cousins are very fond of apple-pie. It is consumed to a large extent all over the country. Not raised apple-pie; but flat, and with a paste that is invariably very coarse and indigestible. You have a triangular-shaped slice put on your plate, and (in some parts of America) if you do not want to be singular you will eat it with a bit of cheese, Yorkshire fashion. As an American lady once graphically put it: "Apple-pie without cheese Is like a kiss without a squeeze."
Walter Gore Marshall, Through America: Or, Nine Months in the United States (1882), p. 99
A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
Fifty years of struggling to make ends meet have taught me one thing for sure—that you don’t get something for nothing. A mouse will always find free cheese in a mousetrap; but I never saw one that was very happy about it.
H. C. Diefenbach in 1950, quoted in: Sunday Times-Advertiser Trenton (NJ) (3 December 1950), Quotable Quotes, p. 10.
When life gives you cheese, send a thank you bell to the cow.
Jim from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, p. 134