Quotes about food and eating

"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."

Gandhi, Mahatma on food and eating
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"It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs."

Gilbert, W. S. on food and eating   

"There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison."

Goodman, Paul on food and eating   

"A gourmet is just a glutton with brains."

Haberman Jr., Phillip H. on food and eating   

"As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it."

Hackett, Buddy on food and eating   

"A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life."

Hitopadesa on food and eating   

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on food and eating   

"Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking."

Howe, Edgar Watson on food and eating   

"A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen."

Hubbard, Kin on food and eating   

"We seldom report of having eaten too little."

Jefferson, Thomas on food and eating   

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

Johnson, Samuel on food and eating   

"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."

Johnson, Samuel on food and eating   

"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."

Khrushchev, Nikita on food and eating   

"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet."

Kurnitz, Harry on food and eating   

"I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee."

Lancaster, Burt on food and eating   

"The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth."

Lappe, Frances Moore on food and eating   

"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat."

Lebowitz, Fran on food and eating   

"If you're going to America, bring your own food."

Lebowitz, Fran on food and eating   

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

Lebowitz, Fran on food and eating   

"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."

Lebowitz, Fran on food and eating   

"I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster."

Lewis, Joe E. on food and eating   

"If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on food and eating   

"Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?"

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on food and eating   

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."

Loren, Sophia on food and eating   

"Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them."

Maximus, Tyrius on food and eating   

"It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it."

Mcclinton, Delbert on food and eating   

"You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread."

Miller, Henry on food and eating   

"We are digging our graves with our teeth."

Moffett, Thomas on food and eating   

"Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half."

Montesquieu, Charles De on food and eating   

"No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."

Morley, Christopher on food and eating
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"Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres."

Munro, Hector Hugh on food and eating   

"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

Munro, Hector Hugh on food and eating   

"We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness."

Orbach, Susie on food and eating   

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

Orwell, George on food and eating   

"Avoid fresh meats, which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light in the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Don't look back. Someone might be gaining on you."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on food and eating   

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody."

Pepys, Samuel on food and eating   

"Never eat anything you can't lift."

Piggy, Miss on food and eating   

"Never eat more than you can lift."

Piggy, Miss on food and eating   

"Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food."

Pilgrim, Peace on food and eating   

"Abstain from beans."

Plutarch on food and eating