Horace Quotes, Food Quotes, Water Quotes

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

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Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

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