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After a good dinner

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Oscar Wilde
Beware
Beware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin Franklin
Biofuels
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
Bill Gates
Eating well in England
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham
Food and fire
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
Food and medicine
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
Food in your mouth
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka
Food of love
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
Food of the soul
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
Hunger and God
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi
Ice-cream
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire
If one has not dined well
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
Ill cook
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare
Innovations
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
Bill Gates
Killing animals for food
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy
My food
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
My friends
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
Not necessity, not desire
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our own food
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
Bill Gates
Secret of success
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
Sincerer love
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
The habit of eating
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
Tinned food
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

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