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Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Food

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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

Benjamin Franklin

Country, Food, Character

Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Benjamin Franklin

Death, Food, Saws

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

Benjamin Franklin

Mother, Food, Evil

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Hunger is the best pickle.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Pickles, Hunger

Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.19, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Evil, Belly

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.247, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Benjamin Franklin

Hate, Food, Thinking

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.31, Courier Corporation

Beware the hobby that eats.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Liberty, Hobbies

Hunger never saw bad bread.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Bread, Saws

Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

Benjamin Franklin

Funny, Drinking, Food

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.347, Bantam Classics

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Brain, Dull

Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.285, Oxford University Press, USA

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Benjamin Franklin

Nature, Food, Cooking

Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Gold, Might

Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Benjamin Franklin

Wise, Food, Men

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.289, Barnes & Noble Publishing

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Catching Fire, Vinegar

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.117, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Benjamin Franklin

Girl, Food, Wine

Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Men, House

Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Science, Kitchen

Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.276, Oxford University Press, USA

If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Glasses, Hands

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Animal, Pigeons

Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Benjamin Franklin

Food, Cooking, Widows

James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

Benjamin Franklin

Art, Food, Wine

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