Food & Drink Sayings

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 creating a Frankenstein.

They fought me, I fought back. Surrender would have been neater, but it is not in me to yield.

If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

I'm extremely glad for you, Messire. Great tidings! Now you can read Cervantes in the original.

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.

He would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

The greatest human endeavor is the striving for a good character.

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

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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.