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“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”

Death Dies Saws Food Thousand Eating Hundred Hunger Nutrition Poor Richard

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

Source: The affluent society

“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.”

Men Past Dies Food Fame Tables Cooking Culinary Farmers Ironic Guests Plates Shifting Corn Crow Fickle Crumbs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Those who don't feed themselves with food of hope will eventually die of mental starvation”

Dies Food Starvation

Author:Mario

“Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.”

Persons Order Dies White Food Cooking Jew Bread Culinary Eating Bread White Bread Pastrami

Author:Milton Berle

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

“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.”

Thinking Men Dies Culture Food Waste Europe Cooking Culinary Accustomed Cookery American Food

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die.”

Ifs Littles Funny Dies Bits Food Cat Smell Comedian Pet Kitten Stink Cat Food

Author:Karl Pilkington

“More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.”

People Running Dies Missing Food Eating Cooking Driving Culinary

Author:Duncan Hines

“Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.”

Has Beens Dies Known Food Disease Claims Vegetarian Immune

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."”

Years Humor Hands Light Funny Dies Food Humorous Threat Dues Smoke Thirty Airline Thirty Years Lighters Disposable Air Travel Secondhand Smoke

Book:Peace Kills

Source: Peace Kills