Mark Twain Quotes, Food Quotes, Humble Quotes

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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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

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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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Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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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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