Palate Quotes - Page 2

• The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

  Gary L. Francione

  Death, Fashion, Ideas

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• My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

  Jacques Pepin

  Add, Chef, Used

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• You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Hunger

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Appreciate, Chocolate, Encounters

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• It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Cooking, Littles

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Pay

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The history of Tom Jones”, p.45

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• To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache.

  Jasper Fforde

  Espresso, White, Heartache

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• Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.

  Muriel Barbery

  Needs, World, Coats

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• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  Rachel Nichols

  Heart, Mind, Special

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• Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day

  Angelo Pellegrini

  Wine, Lust, Young

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• To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Wine, Glasses, Obscure

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• A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

  Fanny Fern

  Food, Heart, Reflection

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Shadows and Sunbeams”, p.205

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• From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Apples, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.201, Gibbs Smith

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• In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
  [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

  Juvenal

  Eating, Reason, Solo

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• As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools.

  Joe Bastianich

  Important, Tools

  "This Quitter Did Win" by Joe Bastianich, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate
  pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or
  a single death. Please go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Thinking, Suffering, Vegan

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• If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

  Michael Herr

  War, Thinking, Color

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• Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

  William Shakespeare

  Love, May, Appetite

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.409

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• Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.

  Thomas Paine

  Home, Choices, Mind

  Thomas Paine (1908). “Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography by Thomas Clio Rickman and Appreciations by Leslie Stephen, Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard and Marilla M. Ricker”

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• He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

  Paul of the Cross

  Attachment, Doe, Flesh

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• Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance, or rendering that agreeable to the taste which is essential to the support of life, and of pleasing the palate without injury to the system, is, strictly speaking, a branch of chemistry; but, important as it is both to our enjoyments and our health, it is also one of the latest cultivated branches of the science.

  Friedrich Accum

  Art, Support, Important

  Friedrich Christian Accum (1821). “Culinary chemistry: exhibiting the scientific principles of cookery, with concise instructions for preparing good and wholesome pickles, vinegar, conserves, fruit jellies, marmalades, and various other alimentary substances employed in domestic economy, with observations on the chemical constitution and nutritive qualities of different kinds of food : with copper plates”, p.1

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• Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

  Emily Dickinson

  Revenge, Hate, Enemy

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.489, Harvard University Press

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• But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

  Jeff Dunham

  Simple, Voice, Teeth

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.13, Penguin

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• Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.

  Robert E. Howard

  Wine, Blue, Flames

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “80+ ADVENTURE TALES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD - The Ultimate Action-Packed Collection: Historical Fantasy Classics, Crime Novels, Pirate Tales and more: Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, Kull the Conqueror and Bran Mak Morn Series”, p.196, e-artnow

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