Quotes about food and eating

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead."

Allen, Woody on food and eating
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"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."

Arder, Jeff on food and eating   

"I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning."

Barrymore, John on food and eating   

"Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food."

Baudrillard, Jean on food and eating   

"A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch."

Beard, James on food and eating   

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on food and eating
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"Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received."

Benjamin, Walter on food and eating   

"Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight."

Berra, Yogi on food and eating
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"Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite."

Bible on food and eating   

"Man shall not live by bread alone."

Bible on food and eating   

"Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

Bierce, Ambrose on food and eating
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"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

Brock, Alice May on food and eating   

"Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher."

Bryson, Bill on food and eating   

"Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet."

Burton on food and eating   

"I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli."

Bush, George on food and eating   

"Eating is touch carried to the bitter end."

Butler, Samuel on food and eating   

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"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."

Butler, Samuel on food and eating   

"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."

Byron, Lord on food and eating   

"The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter."

Cartland, Barbara on food and eating   

"It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears."

Cato The Elder on food and eating   

"For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin."

Charles II on food and eating   

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

Cicero, Marcus T. on food and eating
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"The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it."

Collier, William on food and eating   

"The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life."

Connolly, Cyril on food and eating   

"It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes."

Cooke, Alistair on food and eating   

"To eat is human, to digest divine."

Copeland, Charles T. on food and eating   

"Square meals often make round people."

Cossman, E. Joseph on food and eating
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"I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people."

Dangerfield, Rodney on food and eating   

"Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on food and eating   

"I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on food and eating   

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"Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on food and eating   

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"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor."

Euripides on food and eating   

"A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality."

Fadiman, Clifton on food and eating
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"Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure."

Ferber, Edna on food and eating   

"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks."

Fields, Totie on food and eating   

"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly."

Fisher, M. F. K. on food and eating   

"The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything."

Foxx, Redd on food and eating   

"It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions."

Francis De Sales, St. on food and eating   

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

Franklin, Benjamin on food and eating   

"More die in the United States from too much food than from too little."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on food and eating
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