Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Morning Quotes, Food Quotes

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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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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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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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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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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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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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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

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Appetite, a universal wolf.

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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

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