Food & Drink Sayings

350 sayings found from 350 authors

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

— Antonio Gramsci c. 1929-1935
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I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology.

— Slavoj Zizek 2012 (documentary release)
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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

— Cornel West Unknown, but widely attributed.
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A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2010
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Kabir, take no pride in high dwellings. Death levels all to earth, grass grows above.

— Kabir 15th Century
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Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish!

— William Shakespeare c. 1596-1597
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

— Mark Twain Unspecified
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Why did Donald J. Trump cross the road? To see Haitians eating pets on the other side.

— Stephen King Circa 2025
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

— Sappho c. 630-570 BC (original composition)
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The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

— Li Bai c. 701-762 AD (original composition)
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At the grand vermillion gates, wine and meat spoils, while the road outside is paved with frozen bones.

— Du Fu c. 755 AD (approximate)
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I can't trust those who sneer at us drinking down to the lees: That is the kind of thing which gets a bad name for religion.

— Hafez c. 1325-1390 AD (original composition)
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The Miller's prominent feature was his nose with 'a wart on which there stood a tuft of hair Red as the bristles in an old sow's ear'.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

— John Milton 1644
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'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit. Will condescend to take a bit.

— Jonathan Swift 1713
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

— Lord Byron c. 1800-1824
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And nosy me i went and opened it to see what was inside. and those things are so real it scared me to death i must have threw it a mile.

— Billie Holiday 1956
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Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

— Madonna c. 2008
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Who they attracting with that line, 'What's your name, what's your sign?' Soon as he buy that wine I just creep up from behind.

— Notorious B.I.G. 1994
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You know, I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

— Kanye West c. 2016
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