"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Food, Gold, Song, World

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Food, Passion, Happiness, Desire

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Food, Being, Chance, Company

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."

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"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

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"I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too-And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness..."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

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"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."

"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

"Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"Art is a house that tries to be haunted."

"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

"He disposes Doom who hath suffered him."

"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

"I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too-And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness..."