Samuel Johnson Quotes About Food
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
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Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
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Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Hunger is never delicate.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
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Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
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