"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery,……" — Benjamin Franklin
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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More Cookery Quotes
This quote is filed under Cookery Quotes,
one of 52 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
— Maya Angelou
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I…
— Mark Twain
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Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.
— George Ellwanger
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Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
— Andre Simon
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to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French…
— Marie-Antoine Careme
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It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome…
— Eliza Acton
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All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and…
— Aldous Huxley
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
— William Penn
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
— Fannie Farmer
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He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas…
— Willa Cather
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