Work & Food Quotes
"Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first."
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818-1885)
“Too much work, and no vacation,
Deserves at least a small libation.
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses;
Work's the curse of the drinking classes.”
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.”
William Faulkner (1897-1962) American writer.
“Non cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.”
Julia Child (1912-2004)
“Obesity is never found among the savages or among the classes of society where the people have to work to eat, and where they only eat to live.”
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
“Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.”
Maimonides (1135-1204)
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