Mark Twain Quotes, Food Quotes, Taken Quotes

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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

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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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Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

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

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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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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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

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

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Food Quotes , Cooking Quotes

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

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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

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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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