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Meals Quotes - Page 6

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.58

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.19

The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)”, p.4138, e-artnow

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.51, Penguin

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

"Business Wit & Wisdom". Book by Richard Zera, p. 60, en.wikiquote.org. March 31, 2005.