A. J. Liebling Quotes, Food Quotes, Loss Quotes

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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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

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

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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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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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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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Appetite, a universal wolf.

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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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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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