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Meals Quotes - Page 2

Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.

Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.

Duncan Hines (1959). “Adventures in Good Eating”

Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.

Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

John Cage (2010). “A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings”, p.60, Wesleyan University Press