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Food and Drink

11 aphorisms  ·  4 comments

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Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (347 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

[aphorist] Ovid, in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (792 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

[aphorist] A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in [category] Food and Drink and [category] Life and Death

The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh (hardcover)

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (439 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

[aphorist] Hermione Gingold, in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (323 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1033 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Son House

If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time.

[aphorist] Havelock Ellis, (from biographer's notes), in [category] Food and Drink and [category] Vice and Virtue

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (372 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

[aphorist] Confucius, in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (345 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Wine is bottled poetry.

[aphorist] Robert Louis Stevenson, in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (776 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] David Winston

Friendships develop over food and wine.

[aphorist] Prince Nicholas Romanoff, (Vanity Fair, April 1999), in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (366 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

[aphorist] George Bernard Shaw, in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (360 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.

[aphorist] Katherine Cebrian, in [category] Food and Drink

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (382 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.

[aphorist] Winston Churchill, in [category] Food and Drink

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