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Mark Twain Quotes about Food

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education, Food, Inspiration

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Happiness, Food, Desire

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.701, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

Food, Inspiration, Cooking

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Hurt, Rain, Food

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.189, Univ of California Press

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Food, Inspiration, Angel

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Food, People, Gone

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3582, GENERAL PRESS

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

Food, Long, Cooking

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.85, Univ of California Press

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

Food, Men, Thinking

Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.218, 谷月社

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

Food, New Orleans, Criminals

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Food, Thinking, Toadstools

Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.30, Xist Publishing

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Food, Men, Dinner

Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

Funny, Humorous, Food

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Food, Wine, Men

Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

Food, Taken, Winter

Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.10, University of Missouri Press

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

Food, Humble, Islands

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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