Barley Quote by Charles Dickens

“Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a…

— Diana Gabaldon

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

— Eddie Murphy

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The wise man does not mix grain and grape”

— C.S. Forester

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

— P. J. O'Rourke

She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean…

— Bible

“Marcus Aurelius had a version of this exercise where he’d describe glamorous or expensive things without their euphemisms—roasted meat is a dead animal and…

— Ryan Holiday

“He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him: examples presented themselves to his mind, not only of…

— Patrick O'Brian

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made…

— Bible

“He will leave Bibles to eat bricks, he will leave bricks to eat bottles, he will leave bottles to eat clothing, he will leave…

— Mark Twain