Thy rebukehath brokenmy heart;Iam full of heaviness: I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. They gave me gall to eat: and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 69:21^2.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

-Gainsborough,Thomas
  Letter to Edward Stratford,1 May, excusing himself for not yet finishing the portrait of him and his wife.

Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  Retaliation, l.11^12.

   A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 5 Oct. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785).

Vinegar he poured on meall his life; Iam well marinated; how can I be honey now?

-Olsen,Tillie
  Tell Me a Riddle, section1.

To make a good salad isto be a brilliant diplomatistöthe problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Vera, orThe Nihilists, act 2.