Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Food Quotes, Ninety Nine Quotes

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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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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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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

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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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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.

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PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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