Food Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

What one relishes, nourishes.

— Benjamin Franklin

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that would travel much, should eat little.

— Benjamin Franklin

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

— Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, not live to eat.

— Benjamin Franklin

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hunger never saw bad bread.

— Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

— Benjamin Franklin

“If you eat one another, I don't see why we may not eat you.”

— Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

— Benjamin Franklin

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

— Benjamin Franklin

A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

— Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

— Benjamin Franklin

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— Benjamin Franklin

“After three days houseguests and food begins to stink!”

— Benjamin Franklin

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will…

— Benjamin Franklin

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I…

— Benjamin Franklin

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral…

— Benjamin Franklin

If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to…

— Benjamin Franklin

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated…

— Benjamin Franklin

Venison and venery defeated me.

— Benjamin Franklin

Beware the hobby that eats.

— Benjamin Franklin

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

— Benjamin Franklin

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

— Benjamin Franklin

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

— Benjamin Franklin

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.

— Benjamin Franklin

The misers cheese is wholesomest

— Benjamin Franklin

Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

— Benjamin Franklin

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

— Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, don't live to eat.

— Benjamin Franklin

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

— Benjamin Franklin

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

— Benjamin Franklin

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

— Benjamin Franklin

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

— Benjamin Franklin

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

— Benjamin Franklin

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

— Benjamin Franklin

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

— Benjamin Franklin