George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Food Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

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

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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

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

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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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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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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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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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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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