Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Food
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Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
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Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
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If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.
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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
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At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
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A fat kitchin, a lean Will.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
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Hunger never saw bad bread.
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A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.
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A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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