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Quotes About Abundance

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
~ Bill Gates
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.
~ Robert Herrick
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
~ Donald Barthelme
We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.
~ Vivek Wadhwa
There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.
~ Gael Greene
Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.
~ Francois Rabelais
Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...
~ Charles Dickens
I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.
~ Bee Wilson
Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.
~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
~ Laurie Colwin
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
~ Kin Hubbard
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
~ Mae West
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
~ Marlene Dietrich
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
~ Ken Keyes
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
~ Horace
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
~ Nicolas Boileau
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
~ Robert Quillen
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
~ Eleonora Duse
Enough is as good as a feast.
~ John Heywood
He who is contented is rich.
~ Lao-Tzu
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
~ Unknown
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau