George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Food Quotes

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Food Quotes , Animal Quotes

There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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