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Food Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,…
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
- HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that…
- MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled…
- HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
- Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
- Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
- Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple…
- Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease,…
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