Mark Twain Quotes About Food
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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.
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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.
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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.
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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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