Charles Dickens Quotes, Food Quotes, Human Nature Quotes

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Food Quotes , Believe Quotes

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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

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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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Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Food Quotes , Loss Quotes

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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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

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

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