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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

“A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.”

Religious Food Couple Thousand Harmony Cooking Fifty Culinary Temper Sermons Promoters Methodists

Book:Cottage Economy

Source: Cottage Economy

“Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?”

Persons Two States Enjoy Simple Practice Food Theory Thousand Pure Cooking Bread Diets Meals Culinary Articles Simplest Two Days Staples

Book:The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery

Source: The Young Housekeeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery

“EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.”

Stills Religious Five Food Thousand Members Hundred Sacred Cooking Culinary Controversy Disputes Sects Eucharist Religious Sects

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”

Ifs Want Two Humor Funny Food Thousand Hungry Rice

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.”

Two Three Food Thousand Cooking Culinary Haiku

Author:Masaoka Shiki

“A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.”

Men Years Results Food Thousand Tradition One Man Thousand Years Soup Refined

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”

People Two Food Thousand Cooking Culinary Vegetarian Vegetarianism Vegetarian Food Celery

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.”

People Food Civilization Thousand Enlightenment Hundred Vices Accepted Nine Forgiven Ninety Sauce Infallible Ninety Nine

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce

“Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.”

Doe Enough Facts Age Night Hours Food Thousand Eating Hundred Twenties Cooking Mere Eight Upset Contemplation Fifty Culinary Steady Day And Night Chewing Swallowing

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

Source: Essays