Mark Twain Quotes, Food Quotes, Long Quotes

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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

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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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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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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

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

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

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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

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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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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

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Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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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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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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