Samuel Butler

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I once made a (it was supposed to be a 30-minute) bean salad that took me like 6 hours

Trump Steaks, where are the steaks? Do we have steaks? We have Trump Steaks.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

I love to cook comfort food. I’ll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

I am vegetarian. I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

No eggs, no omelette. And it depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket, you have eggs class one, class two, class three. Some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.

Chocolate makes everyone smile – even bankers.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

I go to McDonald’s every day. But I don’t eat much.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!