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“What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.”

“I'm a man more dined against than dining.”

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Author:Maurice Bowra

“Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.”

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Author:Jeff Smith

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit

“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

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

“Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”

Source: Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends

“Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.”

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Book:Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

Source: Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

“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

“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.”

“Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.”

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Author:Julia Child

“It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.”

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Book:La bonne table

Source: La bonne table