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Quotes About Victuals

The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course.
~ Winston Churchill
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.
~ Anton Chekhov
In a letter hastily written to a friend in London, Cushman saw only doom and disaster ahead. "Friend, if ever we make a plantation God works a miracle, especially considering how scant we shall be of victuals, and most of all un-united amongst ourselves and devoid of good tutors and regiment. Violence will break all. Where is the meek and humble spirit of Moses?
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.
~ Fanny Burney
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.
~ William Shakespeare
But,' Willie says, 'I become a terrific ticket taker. In fact,' he says, 'I am known as the Eisenhower of the front door. Furthermore, this assignment comes to me in nick of time because my original outfit is sent to Europe where I understand the victuals are even worse than they are in camp and there is practically no hotel life for an enlisted man.
~ Damon Runyon
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." John 2:19 "Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it." Joshua 1:11
~ Neville Goddard