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 | "A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and
vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do
for your country. See Cicero & J.F. Kennedy" | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do
for your country." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "BETTER is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full
of sacrifices with strife." | |
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The Bible
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| "But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord
to bless me With apple pie and cheese." | |
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Eugene Field
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| "C is for cookie, it"s good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie
starts with C." | |
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Cookie Monster
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| "Dinner at the Huntercombes? possessed only two dramatic features ?
the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy." | |
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Anthony Dymoke Powell
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| "Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully
aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its
appearance and delay its putrefaction." | |
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John Cage
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| "For my part, now, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one
must pass, in order to get to bed." | |
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Oliver Edwards
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| "God gave teeth; He will give bread." | |
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Proverb
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| "I am not a glutton ? I am an explorer of food." | |
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Erma Bombeck
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| "I didn"t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat
vegetables." | |
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William A. Arnett
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| "I don"t think meals have any business being deductible. I"m for
separation of calories and corporations." | |
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Ralph Nader
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| "I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and
obsequious attendance, but and truth were not; and I went away hungry from
the inhospitable board." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And of thy meager store Two
loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths
to feed thy soul." | |
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Sheikh Muslih?uddin Saadi Shirazi
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| "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then
wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is
a movable feast." | |
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Ernest Hemingway
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| "If you can"t feed a hundred people, then feed just one." | |
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Mother Teresa
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| "In Mexico we have a word for sushi ? Bait." | |
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Jose Simon
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| "It?s a very odd thing? As odd as can be? That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T. Porridge and apples, Mince, muffins and mutton, Jam,
junket, jumbles? Not a rap, not a button It matters; the moment They?re
out of her plate, Though shared by Miss Butcher And sour Mr. Bate, Tiny
and cheerful, And neat as can be, Whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss
T." | |
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Walter John de La Mare
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| "Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first." | |
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Ernestine Ulmer
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| "Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my
life; let us swear eternal friendship." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an
ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does
harm to my wit." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "My mother"s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave
it." | |
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Buddy Hackett
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| "O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so
cheap!" | |
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Thomas Hood
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| "One cannot live well, love well or sleep well unless one has dined
well." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is
Indigestion." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that"s bad for
you!" | |
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Tommy Smothers
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| "Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we
hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit." | |
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Robert Burns
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| "The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is
perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth." | |
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Frances Moore Lappé
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| "The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the
bread." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "The west wasn"t won on salad." | |
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Unknown
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| "There is more simplicity in a man who eats caviar on impulse than in
the man who eats grapenuts in principle." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Thomas Jefferson?s Decalogue of Canons VI. We never repent of having
eaten too little." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it
French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy
sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." | |
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Alice May Brock
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| "Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man
with wind and self-righteousness." | |
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Robert M. Hutchins
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| "When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don"t eat so
much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy
food and clothes." | |
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Desiderius Erasmus
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| "You can not hear what you do not understand." | |
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Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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