Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Food

• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wisdom, Educational

• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.290

• There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.347, Bantam Classics

• I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Food, Saws

• In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Nature, Food, Cooking

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

• A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Catching Fire, Vinegar

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.117, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

• Hunger is the best pickle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Pickles, Hunger

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.19, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Beware the hobby that eats.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Liberty, Hobbies

• I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Food, Character

  Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

• A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Evil, Belly

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.247, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Food, Thinking

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• Hunger never saw bad bread.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Bread, Saws

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Food, Wine

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

• Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Art, Food, Wine

• Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Animal, Pigeons

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

• A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mother, Food, Evil

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Brain, Dull

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.285, Oxford University Press, USA

• If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Gold, Might

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Science, Kitchen

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.276, Oxford University Press, USA

• If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Glasses, Hands

• Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Food, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.289, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Cooking, Widows

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

• At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Men, House

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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