"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

Helen Rowland, American Writer

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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."

Woody Allen, American Director

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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

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"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."

George Mikes, British Writer

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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

Jennifer Jason Leigh, American Actress

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"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."

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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."

"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."

"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

Explore more quotes by Walter Bagehot

"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."

"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."

"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."

"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."

"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."

"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."

"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."