“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged: in the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience have been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
“Eat few suppers, and you’ll need few medicines.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“A full belly makes a dull brain.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)