Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Food Quotes, Mean Quotes

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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New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

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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.

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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

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Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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

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An army marches on its stomach.

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

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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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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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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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