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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift
Food, Men, Oysters
1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift
Broken Heart, Food, Pie
1738 Polite Conversation.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift
Children, Food, Years
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

Jonathan Swift
Food, Kissing, Cooking
Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1778). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Notes Historical and Critical”, p.182

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

Jonathan Swift
Food, Kitchen
Jonathan Swift (1738). “A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation: According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England”, p.154

They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

Jonathan Swift
Food, Lakes, Sea

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.

Jonathan Swift
Food, Kissing, Cooking
Jonathan Swift, “Market Women’s Cries”

Bread is the staff of life.

Jonathan Swift
Food, Bread, Eating
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Tale of a Tub, 1922.

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