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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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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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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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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

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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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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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