Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Food Quotes, Cooking Quotes

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

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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

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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

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

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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

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To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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

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There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

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The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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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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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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