Mark Twain Quotes, Food Quotes, Long 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.

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

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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

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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.

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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

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

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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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.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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

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He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

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