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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.
"You see my adjutant made rather a silly mistake. He hadn't had much truck with boots before and the silly fellow thought they were extra rations. My men ate the whole bag of tricks last night."
evelyn waugh— Chapter 5 (Black Mischief (1932))
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.
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats.
Robert Browning— 1842 Dramatic Lyrics,'The Pied Piper of Hamlin'.
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.
Emily Dickinson— c.1883 Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published1890).
Wer nie sein Brot mitTr a« nen aÞ, Wer nie die kummervollen N a« chte, Auf seinem Bette weinen saÞ, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen M a« chte. Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow He knows ye not, ye heavenly powers.
— 1795-6 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (translated by Carlyle in1824 as Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship).
Biblical scholars tell us that this is the same meal that Jesus ate at the last supper. But hey, I’m sure you have a good reason for ordering something else.
scott adams— "Menus: Jambalaya". Stacey's at Waterford. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
'In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil. He woke her then and trembling and obedient she ate that burning heart out of his hand. Weeping I saw him then depart from me.'
dante alighieri— La Vita Nuova, First Sonnet
"If I forgot some stuff, please excuse me; I ate the brown acid at Woodstock '69 and can scarcely remember my own name."
brandon boyd— In his "Thanks" for the MV album
He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.
diogenes laërtius— Socrates, 16.
Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.
william plomer— "Father and Son: 1939", line 73.
I told him...that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.
jonathan swift— Voyage to Houyhnhnms, Ch. 6
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Motto, Hyperion, book i.
Every word you wrote I ate, as if it were manna. Finding one's self in a book is a second birth; and you are the only one who knows that at times men behave like women and women like men, and that all these distinctions are mock distinctions.
anaïs nin— Collages (1964), p. 114
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End.
bertrand russell— Full text of Russell's book History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools), written in 1959 and published on his ninetieth birthday, as quoted in Slater Bertrand Russell (1994), p. 136.
I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
George Bernard Shaw— Act II (Pygmalion (1912))
Such was life in the Golden Gate: Gold dusted all we drank and ate, And I was one of the children told, 'We all must eat our peck of gold.'
robert frost— Robert Frost, A Peck of Gold (1926)
Once, long ago, there was one good mother-in-law, but a wolf ate her.
— As quoted in Mineke Schipper, Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from around the World, (2003)
A gay peninsula filled with sprightly people who ate peppered food, drank strong liquors , wore flamboyant clothes, loved and murdered easily and had a splendid talent for starting wars ".
— A Long Row of Candles by C. J. Sulzberger
Oh we ate all of the oranges off the navels of our lovers Grabbed a book and read the cover.
— Modest Mouse, "Fire It Up", We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (2007).
Around 1200, the Chinese in all regions had three meals a day, the evening repast being the most substantial and typically consisting of several courses…Three meals remained the norm in China into modern times, with farmers sent their midday meals in containers, while women and children ate at home.
— B. W. Higman, in "How Food Made History (8 August 2011)", p.1924
