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Food Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies…
- Hunger never saw bad bread.
- To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual…
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
- Beware the hobby that eats.
- Hunger is the best pickle.
- There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
- In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
- Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
- A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
- A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.
- A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
- Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
- If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
- Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
- A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
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