“ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: / And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: / And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 261
“ Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 596
“ I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks. ”
- Joe E. Lewis- Copy
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“ Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. ”
- Samuel Pepys- Copy
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“ Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
- 182
“ Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
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“ What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food. ”
- Roger Ebert- Copy
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“ Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. ”
- Tommy Cooper- Copy
- 768
“ My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer. ”
- Mike Myers- Copy
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“ I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time. ”
- Robbie Williams- Copy
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“ Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ It all comes back to the basic. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back. ”
- Dave Thomas- Copy
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“ You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked? ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
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“ Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
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“ There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. ”
- Katherine Anne Porter- Copy
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“ Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's Jack Daniel's. Ask them which they prefer. They'll think the two drinks are quite different. They are tasting images. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
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“ Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra…these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known…this is the only thing I can say about the matter… ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
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“ Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment ; a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. ”
- Uta Hagen- Copy
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