Victuals Quotes

#1. Life is with such all beer and skittles.
They are not difficult to please
About their victuals.

Charles Stuart Calverley

#2. Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

William Shakespeare

#3. Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.

O. Henry

#5. An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

Christopher Columbus

#6. We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

William Bradford

#7. Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Edmund Burke

#8. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

Samuel Johnson

#9. There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would NEVER be quiet. Is

Charles Dickens

#10. There's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

Fanny Burney

#11. DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

Anton Chekhov

#13. And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#14. You wanna know how I get this shirt on?" he asked. "Yes," I breathed. His mouth came to mine, his eyes looking into mine and he whispered against my lips, "Then take it off.

Kristen Ashley

#15. The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

Oscar Wilde

#16. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Alexandre Dumas

#17. If you are taught how to love, your love is going to be false. Real love should be spontaneous. How can you be taught to love? If you are taught, then you will act accroding to those rules and the natural flow will not be there.

Osho

#18. Cracker Barrel's dining room bustled with activity. Joan had to raise her voice to be heard by Eve, who sat at the

Virginia Smith

#19. The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Jeff Buckley

#20. Work like it is your passion, vision, and mission. Love like you are drunk with love without intermission.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Did you ever try to sleep sober?

Doug Stanhope

#22. I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

Mike Tyson

#23. My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.

Natalie Portman

#24. Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it.

Donna Tartt

#25. In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.

Diahann Carroll

#26. I have what you might call the South Pole and the North Pole. I have my team and my work, which I do on one side, and I have my family and my home on the other side. Both have nothing really to do with each other.

Michael Schumacher

#27. Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

Jason Silva

#28. At morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock ...

John Geddes