Voltaire Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

• All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

  Voltaire

  Garden, Feet, America

• If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

  Voltaire

  Cheer, Mean, Eating

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.186, Penguin

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