Samuel Johnson Quotes About Cooking

• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Drinking, Food

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, p. 659, 1791.

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Food

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Food

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.175

• Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Food, Cooking

  In William Roberts (ed.) 'Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More' (1834) vol. 1, p. 251

• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

• Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Cooking

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

• A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Men, Meditation

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Collins'

• Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cooking, Beef

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.346, Canongate Books

• Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Men, Understanding

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.24

• Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cooking, Preparation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.125

• Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

  Samuel Johnson

  Horse, Food, Oats

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

• Hunger is never delicate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cooking, Hunger

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.163

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