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Nuts; Nut Food Quotes

“Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.”
Jim Davis, 'Garfield'

“I'm Charley's aunt from Brazil--Where the nuts come from."
'Charley's Aunt' (1892) A play by Bradon Thomas.

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”
Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic

“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.”
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
Actor, director, producer, writer

“Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.”
Paula Danziger, American author

“There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.”
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Chestnuts are "delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned."
John Evelyn (1620-1706)

“if you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.”
Nicholas Culpepper, 'A Physicall Directory' (1649)