Quotes of Consumption - somelinesforyou

“ Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them. ”

- R. Venning

“ Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. ”

- Matthew

“ But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ”

- Bible

“ He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. ”

- Bible

“ And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. ”

- Bible

“ For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. ”

- Buddy Hackett

“ You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. ”

- George Carlin

“ Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet. ”

- Harry Kurnitz

“ Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ I realistically eat every hour and 15 minutes. I watch the clock to see when I eat again. I'm almost upset that I'm not eating now. ”

- Michael Todd

“ All sorrows are good or are less with bread. ”

- Cervantes

“ For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. ”

- Bible

“ When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires too much attention. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ 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

“ Am I eating chicken or tuna? ”

- Jessica Simpson

“ Success is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one. ”

- Barbara Streisand

“ The cancer of time is eating us away. ”

- Henry Miller

“ Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it. ”

- Barbara Jordan

“ For the one who is moderate in eating, recreation, working, sleeping, and waking, this yoga sorrow. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. ”

- Thomas A. Dorgan

“ Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in the Earth and are With constant Drinking fresh and fair. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ”

- Bible

“ For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The true Amphitryon. ”

- John Dryden

“ Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine. ”

- Robert Herrick
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