ruminations on eating and drinking
A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.
Proverb
Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed...I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.
Delia Smith British cookery writer and broadcaster.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
Miguel de Cervantes
A hungry stomach has no ears.
Jean de La Fontaine
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he
eats them.
Peter de Vries
We are wealthy and wasteful but this can't go on. If we don't eat dog biscuits, we could end up eating
our dog instead.
Magnus Pyke (1908 - 1992) British scientist
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us
eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
Bible: Isaiah 22:13
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered
Ring Lardner
One swears by wholemeal bread, one by sour milk; vegetarianism is the only road to salvation of
some, others insist not only on vegetables alone, but on eating those raw. At one time the only thing
that matters is calories; at another time they are crazy about vitamins or about roughage. The
scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't
worry.
Robert Hutchison (1871 - 1960) Newcastle Medical Journal, Vol. 12, 1932
Many are suffering, and many are going into the grave, because of indulgence of appetite. They eat
what suits their perverted taste, thus weakening the digestive organs and injuring their power to
assimilate the food that is to sustain life. This brings on accute disease, and too often death follows.
The delicate organism of the body is worn out by the suicidal practices of those who ought to know
better.
Ellen G. White ( I wonder how Ms. White–no relation–and Mr. Hutchison would have gotten along together)
I wish my ulcers and I could get together on a mutually satisfactory diet.
Irvin S. Cobb
The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves
Brillat-Savarin
I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much food.
Sydney Smith
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage,
concludes that it will also make better soup.
- Henry L. Mencken
It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.
Irish proverb
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ruminations on eating and drinking
A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.
Proverb
Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed...I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.
Delia Smith British cookery writer and broadcaster.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
Miguel de Cervantes
A hungry stomach has no ears.
Jean de La Fontaine
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he
eats them.
Peter de Vries
We are wealthy and wasteful but this can't go on. If we don't eat dog biscuits, we could end up eating
our dog instead.
Magnus Pyke (1908 - 1992) British scientist
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us
eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
Bible: Isaiah 22:13
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered
Ring Lardner
One swears by wholemeal bread, one by sour milk; vegetarianism is the only road to salvation of
some, others insist not only on vegetables alone, but on eating those raw. At one time the only thing
that matters is calories; at another time they are crazy about vitamins or about roughage. The
scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't
worry.
Robert Hutchison (1871 - 1960) Newcastle Medical Journal, Vol. 12, 1932
Many are suffering, and many are going into the grave, because of indulgence of appetite. They eat
what suits their perverted taste, thus weakening the digestive organs and injuring their power to
assimilate the food that is to sustain life. This brings on accute disease, and too often death follows.
The delicate organism of the body is worn out by the suicidal practices of those who ought to know
better.
Ellen G. White ( I wonder how Ms. White–no relation–and Mr. Hutchison would have gotten along together)
I wish my ulcers and I could get together on a mutually satisfactory diet.
Irvin S. Cobb
The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves
Brillat-Savarin
I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much food.
Sydney Smith
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage,
concludes that it will also make better soup.
- Henry L. Mencken
It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.
Irish proverb
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