Rudolph (the leading character) If you's go stop three tradesmen on the street, and ask the three what it is they live by, they'll reply at once, bread, meat and drink, and they'll be certain of it victuals and drink, like the rhyme in Mother Goose, makes up their diet nothing will be said of faith in things unseen, or following the gleam, just bread and meat and a can of wine to wash it down. But if you know them well, behind the fish-eyes and the bellies, if you know them better than they do, each one burns candles at some alter of his mind in secret in secret often, from himself, each is a priest to some dim mystery by which he lives. Strip him of that, and bread and meat and wine won't nourish him ... without his ... hidden faith, he dies and goes to dust.
Quotes about victuals (6 Quotes)
The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course.
Did young Pocahontas really intercede to prevent the execution of Captain John Smith This romantic tale is conspicuously absent from Smith's initial accounts of his captivity under Powhatan 'Arriving at Werawocomoco, their Emperour Powhatan proudly lying uppon a Bedstead a foote high upon tenne or twelve Mattes... and with such grave and majesticall countenance, as drave me into admiration to see such a state in a naked salvage, he kindly welcomed me with good wordes, and great Platters of sundrie victuals, assuring me his friendship, and my libertie within foure days... In describing to him the territories of Europe, which was subject to our Great King whose subject I was, the innumerabl e multitude of his ships, I gave him to understand the noyse of Trumpets, and terrible manner of fighting were under captain Newport my father... At his greatnesse hee admired, and not a little feared... And thus having with all the kindnes hee could devise, sought to content me he sent me home...'
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
When religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people about their victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either about them
Life is with such all beer and skittles They are not difficult to please About their victuals.