Food & Drink Sayings

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

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

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.

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

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

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

Don't be so humble, you're not that great.

Sometimes things that do not appear inspired by courage demand great courage.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Too great seriousness is the most ludicrous thing of all, and too great modesty is the bitterest irony.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.