Mark Twain Quotes, Food Quotes, Humble Quotes

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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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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An army marches on its stomach.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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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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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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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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

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

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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