Meals Quotes - Page 14

• The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Museums, Self, Intellectual

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• Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Children, Home, Men

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• Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Successful, Mathematics, Courses

  Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2008). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Rudyard Kipling (2006). “From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel”, p.454, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on faith and redirect their hearts to charity. Muslims worldwide have stretched out a hand of mercy to those in need. Charity tables at which the poor can break their fast line the streets of cities and towns. And gifts of food and clothing and money are distributed to ensure that all share in God's abundance. Muslims often invite members of other families to their evening iftar meals, demonstrating a spirit of tolerance.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

  Bruce Bawer

  Heart, Gay, Years

  "If Davide Geffen or Elton John is rich, isn't it a sigh of God's favor?". The Advocate Magazine, April 28, 1998.

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• The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Generosity, Events, Nutrition

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• After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.

  Brad Shaw

  Funny, Humorous, Two

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• Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

  T. Casey Brennan

  Compassion, Animal, Pet

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• Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for dinner, or The CEO who is ungrateful for the type of wine served with his 5-star meal?

  Julia Rose

  Gratitude, Stars, Grateful

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• Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Exercise, Science

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Fighting, Iron

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

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• School feeding is a great tool to encourage education and provide food aid to children born into extremely impoverished situations. The kids in school being fed by WFP are empowered by their school meal to learn and better their lives!

  Lauren Bush

  Children, School, Kids

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• Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Jobs, Writing, Kitchen

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• All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Typewriters, Dining

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• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Attitude, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Simple, Desire

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• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Brother, Book

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Worry, Next

  "Business Wit & Wisdom". Book by Richard Zera, p. 60, en.wikiquote.org. March 31, 2005.

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• It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.

  Eliza Acton

  Ignorant, May, Economy

  Eliza Acton (1865). “Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...”, p.8

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• Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Blood, Grace

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Family, Perfect, House

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• Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, Dull, Dessert

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• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

  Dorothy Allison

  Mother, Dream, Food

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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