Quotations About / On: FOOD

  • 41.
    Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
    (Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Notebooks and Diaries (1808-1810).)
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  • 42.
    On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
    (George Mikes (1912-1987), Hungarian-born British humorist. How To Be An Alien, ch. 1, sct. 1 (1946). Commenting in 1977 on his oft-quoted remark above; "Since then, food in England has improved, table manners have deteriorated. In those days food was hardly ever discussed, it was taboo, like sex." (How To Be Decadent).)
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  • 43.
    If music be the food of love, play on,
    Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
    The appetite may sicken and so die.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Orsino, in Twelfth Night, act 1, sc. 1, l. 1-3 (1623). Opening lines of play. The words are recalled in Shakespeare's later work, Antony and Cleopatra, when Cleopatra calls out for music, "moody food/Of us that trade in love." Act 2, sc. 5, l. 1.)
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  • 44.
    Graceful women, chosen men
    Dazzle every mortal:
    Their sweet and lofty countenance
    His enchanting food.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Behavior," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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  • 45.
    When no food is given to the ear,
    Then let a little be given to the stomach.
    (Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XLII.2 (1931). Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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  • 46.
    Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
    (William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. Lectures on the English Comic Writers, "On Wit and Humour," (1819).)
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  • 47.
    I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 237, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 48.
    Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for that that stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.
    (S.I. Hayakawa (1906-1992), Canadian-born U.S. educator, semanticist, Senator. Language in Thought and Action, ch. 2, Harcourt Brace (1939).)
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  • 49.
    And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
    (Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Protagoras, 313 C....)
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  • 50.
    Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.
    (Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1968), U.S. author. As quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 7, by William V. Holtz (1993). From a 1923 journal entry.)
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