Lentils Quotes

• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Art, Life And Love

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.114, Bantam

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• The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

  Anthony de Mello

  Kings, Bread, Philosopher

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.86, Image

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• Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Missing, Cooking

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• A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

  Les Dawson

  Growing Up, Squares, Wind

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• You know how most people think that eggs are great sources of protein? Well, you only get about six grams from an egg, and about half of that is in the yolk and the other half is in the white. If instead you opt for a cup of lentils, you get a whopping eighteen grams of protein, plus all that fiber that makes you feel full and cleans out your body!

  Kathy Freston

  Thinking, Eggs, White

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• People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beef steak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets. Does that make sense?

  George Harrison

  Cancer, Heart, People

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• I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

  George Gissing

  Hate, Food, Names

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• Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

  Rebecca Hall

  Cooks, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead.

  Ina Garten

  Fall, Winter, Two

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• It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.

  Catherine Booth

  Men, Animal, Oatmeal

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• I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Sweet, Two, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.

  Kathy Freston

  Heart, Years, Bird

  "Could Chicken Be Contributing to the Obesity Epidemic?" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Holiday, Thinking, Turkeys

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• I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

  Alison Sweeney

  Vegetables, Snacks, Lunch

  "Alison Sweeney's Stay-Slim Secrets". Interview with Ashley Mateo, www.self.com. August 13, 2011.

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• The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

  John Arbuthnot

  Together, Littles, Ancient

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• Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.

  African Spir

  Men, Law, Done

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 36), 1937.

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