Famous quote by Calvin Trillin

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"When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere"

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This quote is written / told by Calvin Trillin somewhere between December 5, 1935 and today. He/she was a famous Journalist from USA. The author also have 8 other quotes.

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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course"

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed"

Edward Young, Poet

"He was a wise man who invented beer"

Plato, Philosopher

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

Lucretius, Poet

"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late"

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human"

"A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own"

Latin Proverb