- Quotes by Robert Burns
“I was na fou, but just had plenty. There’s some are fou o’ love divine, There’s some are fou o’ brandy; An monie jobs that day begin, May end in houghmagandie, Some ither day. The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia’s food. Freedom and whisky gang the gither! Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race. Go, fetch to me a pint o’ wine, And fill it in a silver tassie; That I may drink before I go. A service to my bonnie lassie. Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit”. - Quotes by Edmund Burke
“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them”. - Quotes by Robert Browning
“So munch on, crunch on, take your muncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!” - Quotes by Rupert Chawner Brooke
“Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?” - Quotes by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine”. - Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
“Abdomen: the temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage.”I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,” said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. “What! interrupted Rochebriant, “eating dinner in a drawing-room?” ” I must beg you to observe, monsieur,” explained the great gastronome, “that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.” Edible: good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. Hospitality: the virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of foodand lodging. Rarebit: a Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-the-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau a la financiere is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker. Sauce: the one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. Wine: fermented grape-juice known to the Women’s Christian Union as “liquor,” sometimes as “rum.” Wine, madame, is God’s next best gift to man”.
- Quotes by The Bible
“And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret in pleasant. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and a whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end. And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men. Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities. Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad”.
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