Mark Twain Quotes, Food Quotes, People Quotes

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Food Quotes , People Quotes

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Food Quotes , Wine Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Food Quotes , Oil Quotes

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Food Quotes

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain Ducasse Quotes , Food Quotes , Two Quotes

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Food Quotes , Long Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Food Quotes , Writing Quotes

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Food Quotes , Childhood Quotes

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Food Quotes , Health Quotes

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Strong Quotes , Food Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Food Quotes , Able Quotes

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Food Quotes , Cooking Quotes

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Food Quotes

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Food Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Food Quotes , Humor Quotes

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Food Quotes , Cutting Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Food Quotes , Power Quotes

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Christian Quotes , Food Quotes

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Time Quotes , Food Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Food Quotes , Heart Quotes