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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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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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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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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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Food Quotes , Oysters Quotes

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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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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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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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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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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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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