Licking Quotes by Gail Carriger, Jason Mraz, Brett Morris, Moon Unit Zappa, Howard Jacobson, Eric Morecambe and many others.
The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy – and there’s lots of it – and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You’ve not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you’re still licking your wrists.
I get airsick just licking an airmail stamp.
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food … some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops