Winston Churchill quote

18:40 May 23, 2021 

that Churchill's ideas of proper "nourishment" were not always shared by Allied leaders. During WW2, they reportedly looked forward with trepidation to the non-official part of meetings since Churchill apparently expected them to keep up with his voracious appetite for eating and drinking...

04:13 May 23, 2021 

I think you could get away with this if you can't pin down the "quote" and not forgetting that the German is a translation which was in the mind of the translator and his/her interpretation

04:09 May 23, 2021 

puff and quaff as was Churchill's wont

04:06 May 23, 2021 

although it would fit the picture

04:05 May 23, 2021 

I've also seen "give your body something (for your mind to enjoy)" but no means of attributing this to Churchill

12:42 May 22, 2021 

Not many people know this, but Churchill used to supplement his meagre income by penning diet and self-help books and Mills and Boon romances. This could be from Winston's Ten Steps to a Healthier You (1946).

23:36 Nov 18, 2013 

The same question was discussed on the LEO Forum back in 2008.
Needless to say, the problem was not resolved.

23:25 Nov 18, 2013 

Thanks for sharing.

22:42 Nov 18, 2013 

It finds bills for cigars - soul turns up nothing - food turns up a smoked ham sent to New Zealand and body nothing either.

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Aphorisms = 0

But should you prove me wrong, I'll let Winston Spencer Churchill have the last word:

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

Obviously the food, body and soul quote is something that Neville Chamberlain picked up on his visit to Berchtesgaden in 1938 - after all, his host was a vegetarian and a teetotaller and would have said it was good for the body - then Nev told it to Winnie when he got back to London and mucked up the translation.

22:10 Nov 18, 2013 

http://www.churchillarchive.com/index

using search parameters food/soul/body

11:53 Nov 18, 2013 

Oder auf Deutsch

Kurt Tucholsky - mein Favorit

“Das Englische ist eine einfache, aber schwere Sprache. Es besteht aus lauter Fremdwörtern, die falsch ausgesprochen werden.”

Oder, vielleicht weniger bekannt
Johannes Gross (Publizist und Journalist, berühmt für Aphorismen)

“Der unter deutschen Gebildeten am weitesten verbreitete Aberglaube ist der, dass sie Englisch könnten.”

11:41 Nov 18, 2013 

Indeed! If you can't remember who said it, just pick someone the likes of Shaw, Wilde or Twain. I believe it was Groucho Marx who said that...

11:33 Nov 18, 2013 

Thanks for digging this out :-)

The interesting thing is that a lot of these "quotes" are in such poor and un-Churchillian English that they can't possibly have originated from Winston Churchill.

BTW: there's a similar situation with quotes attributed to Noël Coward and Oscar Wilde

11:10 Nov 18, 2013 

10:05 Nov 18, 2013 

Exactly what I found out - I also think that "live in it" is not particularly Churchill-esque. He would almost certainly have said "dwell" or "reside" in it

10:01 Nov 18, 2013 

Another German restaurant site offers the rather awkward "You should offer your body something good, so that the soul has the desire, to live in there."

Can't find any reliable sources, certainly haven't heard it myself.