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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

— Mark Twain

The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat…

— John Bunyan

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

— John Arbuthnot

“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

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with…

— Joseph Addison

“The great chestnut-wood tables groaned under the weight of platters, trays, plates, dishes and bowls. The whole Feast was here, John saw. Every word…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“His work is as it were, a sacred object and the true fruit of his life, and his aim in storing it away for…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and…

— Thomas Cranmer

“He said there were two kinds of bitterness: one that takes away the appetite and one that stimulates it. Pepper, he said, was of…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“  Stayes not on Man; to God his Tower intends   Siege and defiance: Wretched man! what food   Will he convey up thither to sustain   Himself…

— John Milton

What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook…

— Christopher Paolini