Lord Byron Quotes, Food Quotes, Men Quotes

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

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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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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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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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

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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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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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

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