Mark Twain Quotes About Food
Prior to adopting Mark Twain as his pen name, Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“Put all of your eggs in one basket and–WATCH THAT BASKET.”
“I always take it (Scotch whiskey) at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.”
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.”
“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
“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.”
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”
“But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.”
“Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.”
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