Emily Dickinson Quotes, Food Quotes, Past Quotes

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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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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I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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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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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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

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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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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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

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