Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Food Quotes, Ninety Nine Quotes

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

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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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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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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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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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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

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

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

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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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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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

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

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