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He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. Food comes first, then morals.
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
'Twonations; betweenwhomthere isnointercourseand no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed bya different breeding, are fed by a different 276 food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.' 'You speak of'said Egremont, hesitatingly.'THE RICH ANDTHE POOR.'
Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.
But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. 308
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
In Americawe eat, collectively, withaglumurgefor food to fill us.We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.
God knows that the lesson we learn from life is that our very existence in the nature of things is a perpetual harming of somebody elseif only because every mouthful of food that we eat is a mouthful taken from somebody else.
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms! Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By its Author!
I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
Gula carum tributem exigit, sed vilissimum reddit, quia quanto sunt delicaciora cibavia, tanto fetidiora sunt stercora. Gluttony demands a heavy tribute but gives the basest returns: the more delicate the food, the more reeking the dung.
You Americans donot rearchildren, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned A man in a jail has moreroom, better food, and commonly bettercompany.
If you're going to America, bring your own food.
There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain, Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
Quand il y a a' manger pour huit, il y en a bien pour dix. When there is enough food foreight, there is enough for ten.
Je vis de bonne soupe, et non de beau langage. It's good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money.
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed 'only two dramatic featuresthe wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.'
It isnot to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant.It varies at different times in thesame countryand very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.
In every case, agricultural as well as manufacturing profits are lowered bya rise in the price of raw produce, if it be accompanied bya rise of wages_ The natural tendency of profits istofall; for inthe progress of society and wealth, the additional quantity of food required is obtained by the sacrifice of more and more labour.
I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.
The things people had once held against her unconventional beautyun-American elegance, the taste for French clothes and French foodwere suddenly no longer liabilities but assets.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poet's food is love and game.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my Acquaintance in London; that a young healthy Child, well nursed, is, at aYearold, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome Food; whether Stewed,Roasted,Baked, or Boiled; and,I make no doubt, that it will equally serve in a Fricassee, or a Ragout.
The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
Weary men, what reap ye?Golden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?Human corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldierswhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were dead Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of medical thought.
Now, in this blank of things, a harmony, Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal That grief for which the senses still supply Fresh food.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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