- Quotes by Jonathan Swift
“Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. It was a bold man that first ate an oyster”. - Quotes by William Stevenson
“I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink, With him that wears a hood”. - Quotes by Robert Louis
“Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Go, little book, and wish to all, Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore”. - Quotes by Sir John Collings Squire
“But I amnot so think as you drunk I am”.
- Quotes by Socrates
“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live”. - Quotes by Sydney Smith
“Oh, green and glorious! Oh, herbaceous treat! “Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat: Back to the world he’d turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad-bowl! Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day!” - Quotes by Goldwin Smith
“King Nebuchadnezzar was turned out to grass, With oxen, horses and the savage ass. The king surveyed the unaccustomed fare, With an inquiring but disdainful air, And murmured as he cropped the unwonted food, “It may be wholesome but it is not good.”
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