Khalil Gibran Quotes, Food Quotes, Humor Quotes

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

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

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The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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

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

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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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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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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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