Food & Drink Sayings

350 sayings found from 350 authors

Devil, if you want to eat me, start from behind.

— Martin Luther 1530s-1540s (Table Talk)
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Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

— Zoroaster c. 6th century BC
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Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

— Guru Nanak c. 15th-16th century
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First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

— Marie Curie Early 20th century (approximate)
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Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.

— Benjamin Franklin Unknown, likely 18th century
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You have no talent. You are like a Chinese food delivery guy without Chinese food.

— Stephen Hawking Unknown (skit content)
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Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

— Alexander Fleming Unknown
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God suffers in the great multitudes whom his sacred word cannot reach.

— Johannes Gutenberg c. 1450s
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

— Robert Oppenheimer 1954
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Science is the search for truth -- it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

— Linus Pauling 1958 (No More War!)
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Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) c. 1020
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My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

— Alexander the Great Before 336 BCE
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It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

— Julius Caesar Approx. 44 BCE
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I hope before long to crush you in my arms and cover you with a million kisses burning as though beneath the equator.

— Napoleon Bonaparte Approx. 1796-1797
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When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I'll try again.

— George Washington 1773
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

— Martin Luther King Jr. Undated, but widely attributed.
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If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

— Leon Trotsky Unknown
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Now. listen I ate your bouquet i drank your dishwater. but damn if I'm going to eat that bug.

— Harry Truman Approx. 1964-1965
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How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

— Dwight Eisenhower Unknown (post-presidency)
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A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

— Benito Mussolini Unknown
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