 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. "Some people (said he) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat....that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." He now appeared to me Jean Hull philosophe, and he was for the moment, not only serious... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1926 - 620 pages
...on feeding are characteristic, honest and wise. "Some people," he said, "have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously and carefully ; for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else."... | |
 | James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 390 pages
...talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. "Some people (said !::".) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat....that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." Boswell's ensuing observations on Johnson's habits bear out this opinion. other art... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...Sir Thomas Browne, R, 159. EATING AND DRINKING SOME people have a foolish way of not minding, or of pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part,...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. Dr. Johnson, B, I, 467. A MAN seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1905 - 920 pages
...his idol, he frankly enjoyed the pleasures of the table. 'For my part/ was Johnson's declaration, ' I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully;...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else/ In somewhat the same vein Boswell acknowledges, ' I am myself a lover of wine, and therefore... | |
 | Essex (England) - 1913 - 498 pages
...talked ' with evident satisfaction ' of good eating. ' Some people (said he), have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat....that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.' Parr, had he been present, would not have dissented. ing Bosweli's passage in the packet... | |
 | Bob Phillips - Quotations, English - 1993 - 372 pages
...emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. Peter deVries Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson Most fools think they are only ignorant Benjamin Franklin A fool's mouth... | |
 | Elaine Fantle Shimberg - Health & Fitness - 2002 - 250 pages
...Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my pan, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully;...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. — SAMUEL JOHNSON, in James Boswell's The Life of Johnson ut 'pire SuiAii Xjrep jo... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - Authors, English - 2005 - 321 pages
...talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. "Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat....mind any thing else." He now appeared to me. Jean Bullphilosophe, and he was for the moment, not only serious, but vehement. Yet I have heard him, upon... | |
 | Denise Gigante - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...philosophical matter. "Some people," declared Johnson in an oft-repeated flourish, "have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat....that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else."24 Mind, eat; mind, belly. The juxtapositions are fully self-conscious. Like his heirs... | |
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At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I... 
