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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
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He was the kind of man who kept a diagram showing where you sat when you dined with him and what you ate, lest he serve you the same dish when you came again.
alexander woollcott— Alexander Woollcott, Introduction to The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (1939, pg. 5) talking about Lewis Carroll.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince , Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
— Edward Lear, in The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)
A census taker once tried to test me, I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Ted Tally— 1991 Anthony Hopkins as Dr Hannibal Lecter ('Hannibal the Cannibal') in The Silence of the Lambs.
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.
lin yutang— Ch. IV : On Having A Stomach
The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.
Samuel Butler— Hudibras, Part I, Canto I, line 359 (1663–1664).
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
john green— The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster (2012, p. 3, opening words)
"I hate to tell you this," Jason said, "but I think your leopard just ate a goddess."
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero, Heroes of Olympus Book 1 (Penguin UK, 2010), Ch. VII: Jason
The trenchant blade Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.
Samuel Butler— Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 359.
Elvis ate America before America ate him.
— 2004 On Elvis Presley. In Rolling Stone,15 Apr.
The menu could not guarantee GM-free food but I ate vegetarian shepherd's pie.
— 1999 After spending two days in prison for leading a raid to destroy GM crops. In the Sunday Times,'Talking Heads', 1 Aug.
Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
john milton— 1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.781-5.
Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.
Patti Smith— 2004 In Rolling Stone , 27 May.
He was a bold Man that first ate an Oyster.
jonathan swift— 1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.
In the desertI saw a creature, naked, bestial,Who, squatting upon the ground,Held his heart in his hands,And ate of it.I said, "Is it good, friend?""It is bitter—bitter," he answered;"But I like itBecause it is bitter,And because it is my heart."
Stephen Crane— III
Kids: If a bear is wearing a ranger hat, it's because he ate the ranger!
craig ferguson— On Smokey Bear
I can remember what I ate. Coconut squares dipped in chocolate, wrapped in gold paper.
fenella fielding— Her recollections of her father's cinema
Having seen how many follow and have followed false religions, and having our reason utterly against many of the principal points of the Bible, we require the most perfect evidence of facts, before we can believe. If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe that he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple; and you can't expect greater complaisance than that to be sure.
Edward Fitzgerald— Letter to William Makepeace Thackeray (1831); quoted in The Life of Edward FitzGerald, Translator of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyán (1947, p. 57) by Alfred McKinley Terhune.
The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls.
luke haines— [1]
For wine, they drank the ocean – for bread, they ate their own despairs; counsel from the moon was theirs – for the foolish contention - Murder is not a pretty thing – yet seas do raucous everything to make it pretty – for the foolish or the brave, a way seas have.
marsden hartley— poem on his painting: Fishermen’s Last Supper (the Mason family 1940-1941), as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 113
And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned away their faces and said Our kingdom is not as the kingdom of this world Our life on earth is but a pilgrimage The soul lives on humility and patience at the same time screwing from the poor their last centime They settled down among their treasures and ate and drank with princes and to the starving they said Suffer Suffer as he suffered on the cross for it is the will of God
peter weiss— Marat, act 1, scene 13 (p. 28)
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
Robert Browning— The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.
jane goodall— Harvest for Hope (2006).
The service was of great array, That they were served with that day. Thus they ate, and made them glad, With such service as they had When they had dined, as I you say, Lordis and ladies yede to play; Some to tables and some to chess, With other games more and less.
— The Life of Ipomydon, Harleian Library (British Museum). Manuscript No. 2,252.
'Tis not her coldness, Father, that chills my labouring breast. It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
— R. H. Barham, The Confession.
As soon as Eve ate the apple of wisdom, she reached for the fig leaf.
Judson K. Cornelius— Church Humour (2002, p. 11)
The world knows that to quell the belly-fire, I ate crumbs and morsels given by men of caste , high-caste, low-caste or no cast.
— In Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 72
He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
— Emily Dickinson, A Book.
