Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Food Quotes, Men Quotes

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

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Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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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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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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