Best food & culinary Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 12

“Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.”

“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”

“I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.”

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Author:George Farquhar

“Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'”

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Source: OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works): The Virginian, The Promised Land, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Lady Baltimore, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Dragon of Wantley, Padre Ignacio, Philosophy 4, The Jimmyjohn Boss…

“I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.”

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Author:Robert Burns

“Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.”

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Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?”

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Book:The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

Source: The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

“Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!”

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Book:The Fantasticks

Source: The Fantasticks

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.”

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Author:Adelle Davis

“In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”

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Author:George Gissing

“The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.”

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Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.”

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Author:Laurie Colwin

“Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.”

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Author:Andre Simon

“I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.”

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Author:W. S. Gilbert

“I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.”

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Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.”

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Book:American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power

Source: American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power

“In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.”

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Book:From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel

Source: From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel

“Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.”

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Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.”

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Book:Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition

“A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.”

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Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.”

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Author:Isadora Duncan

“Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.”

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Book:The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant

Source: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant

“Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.”

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Book:Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

Source: Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

“Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.”