Food Quotes - Page 33

• Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

  Bennett Cerf

  Cooking, Soup, Noise

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• He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

  Raymond Chandler

  Angel, Cooking, Tarantulas

  1940 Of Moose Malloy. Farewell, My Lovely, ch.1.

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• In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

  Julia Child

  Sports, Art, Home Cooking

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• Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Political, Healthy

  Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761

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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.

  Winston Churchill

  Years, Two, Wife

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

  William J. Clinton

  Mcdonalds, Hype, Political

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• Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

  Bill Gates

  Innovation, Environment, Economy

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• If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Land, Class

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Two, Six, Cheese

  Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"

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• After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

  Mel Gibson

  Funny, Inspiring, Anniversary

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• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  Jackie Gleason

  Funny, Inspiring, Humor

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• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

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• Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

  Matt Groening

  Humor, Alcohol, Answers

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• Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

  Matt Groening

  Inspiration, Funny Simpsons, Funniest Simpsons

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". "The Simpsons (TV Series): Marge vs. the Monorail", www.imdb.com.

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

  William Hazlitt

  Talking, Salt, Conversation

  William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].”, p.50

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• Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Frozen

  "Mitch All Together". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2003.

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

  O. Henry

  Art, Family Love, Men

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.218, 谷月社

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• And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Book, Beer

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  E. W. Howe

  War, Hero, Boys

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• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

  James Huneker

  Summer, July, Life Sucks

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• To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

  John Irving

  Family, Nice, Smell

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• We never repent of having eaten too little.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Weight Loss, Hype

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 21 February (1825)

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• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wife, Greek

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.205

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