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\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes on food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quotes and aphorisms on food by various and famous authors and writers, ideas and thoughts to a well balanced diet and food philosophy to eat and live better.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead – not sick, not wounded – dead.<\/span>
\nWoody Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.<\/span>
\nJeff Arder<\/span><\/p>\n

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.<\/span>
\nJames Beard<\/span><\/p>\n

Unbought feasts. \u00a0(Lat., Dapes inemptae.)<\/span>
\nLatin Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

An anonymous man from the 16th century always used to say: “There are many important things in life, the first is eating, I don’t know the others.”<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Hunger is a good cook.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nAlice May Brock<\/span><\/p>\n

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.<\/span>
\nSamuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.<\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.<\/span>
\nJohn Barrymore<\/span><\/p>\n

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.<\/span>
\nLudwig Van Beethoven<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Aphorisms<\/a>
Aphorisms on food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/span>
\nYogi Berra<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.<\/span>
\nAnthelme Brillat-Savarin<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nGeorge H. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.<\/span>
\nSamuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.<\/span>
\nA. Whitney Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

What most moved him was a certain meal on beans.<\/span>
\nRobert Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

I just hate health food.<\/span>
\nJulia Child<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.<\/span>
\nShirley Conran<\/span><\/p>\n

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.<\/span>
\nRobert Byrne<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.<\/span>
\nLord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.<\/span>
\nBarbara Cartland<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Aphorisms<\/a>
Aphorisms and quotes on food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.<\/span>
\nCato The Elder<\/span><\/p>\n

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.<\/span>
\nCharles II<\/span><\/p>\n

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.<\/span>
\nMarcus T. Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.<\/span>
\nArthur Winter<\/span><\/p>\n

Food = joy … guilt … anger … pain … nurturing … friendship … hatred … the way you look and feel…. Food = everything you can imagine.<\/span>
\nSusan Powter<\/span><\/p>\n

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.<\/span>
\nJohn Kenneth Galbraith<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.<\/span>
\nM.F.K. Fisher<\/span><\/p>\n

Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We’re people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better.<\/span>
\nRachel\u00a0ray<\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you\u2019re with!<\/span>
\nPamela Anderson<\/span><\/p>\n

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.<\/span>
\nWilliam Collier<\/span><\/p>\n

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.<\/span>
\nCyril Connolly<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Salami<\/a>
Salami Italian typical food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To eat is human, to digest divine.<\/span>
\nCharles T. Copeland<\/span><\/p>\n

Square meals often make round people.<\/span>
\nJoseph E. Cossman<\/span><\/p>\n

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.<\/span>
\nRodney Dangerfield<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.<\/span>
\nCliff Fadiman<\/span><\/p>\n

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 entrees, the hors d’oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.<\/span>
\nEdna Ferber<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.<\/span>
\nTotie Fields<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.<\/span>
\nM. F. K. Fisher<\/span><\/p>\n

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.<\/span>
\nJoseph Epstein<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Food … is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.<\/span>
\nDonald Barthelme<\/span><\/p>\n

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.<\/span>
\nBible, Psalms<\/span><\/p>\n

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn’t remind you of anything.<\/span>
\nRedd Foxx<\/span><\/p>\n

One should eat to live, not live to eat.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.<\/span>
\nJohn Kenneth Galbraith<\/span><\/p>\n

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

It isn’t so much what’s on the table that matters, as what’s on the chairs.<\/span>
\nW. S. Gilbert<\/span><\/p>\n

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.<\/span>
\nSir Walter Scott<\/span><\/p>\n

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.<\/span>
\nSir Walter Scott<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Thoughts<\/a>
Thoughts on the art of food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important … I don’t mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different … self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.<\/span>
\nTom Jaine<\/span><\/p>\n

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.<\/span>
\nLucretius<\/span><\/p>\n

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.<\/span>
\nMario Batali<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.<\/span>
\nKurt Vonnegut<\/span><\/p>\n

We need a quarter of the food we eat to live, the rest is used to fatten industrialists, advertisers, doctors and undertakers. (obviously for those dying of hunger the situation changes.)<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Food – what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it – is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.<\/span>
\nMargaret Visser<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nPaul Goodman<\/span><\/p>\n

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.<\/span>
\nPhillip H. Haberman Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.<\/span>
\nBuddy Hackett<\/span><\/p>\n

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.<\/span>
\nHitopadesa<\/span><\/p>\n

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.<\/span>
\nDoug Horton<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of us are either too thin to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.<\/span>
\nEdgar Watson Howe<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.<\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nNikita S. Khrushchev<\/span><\/p>\n

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.<\/span>
\nHarry Kurnitz<\/span><\/p>\n

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.<\/span>
\nBurt Lancaster<\/span><\/p>\n

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes on food and wine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.<\/span>
\nJames Beard<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact is that this generation – yours, my generation … we’re the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it’s belly.<\/span>
\nBono<\/span><\/p>\n

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.<\/span>
\nFrances Moore Lappe<\/span><\/p>\n

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re going to America, bring your own food.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.<\/span>
\nFran Lebowitz<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJoe E. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.<\/span>
\nGeorg C. Lichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.<\/span>
\nSophia Loren<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.<\/span>
\nTyrius Maximus<\/span><\/p>\n

It ain’t what you eat, but the way how you chew it.<\/span>
\nDelbert McClinton<\/span><\/p>\n

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.<\/span>
\nHenry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

Never eat more than you can lift.<\/span>
\nMiss Piggy<\/span><\/p>\n

We are digging our graves with our teeth.<\/span>
\nThomas Moffett<\/span><\/p>\n

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.<\/span>
\nCharles De Montesquieu<\/span><\/p>\n

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.<\/span>
\nChristopher Morley<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nHector Hugh Munro<\/span><\/p>\n

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.<\/span>
\nHebrew Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.<\/span>
\nNew England Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Vegetarian<\/a>
Vegetarian food pyramid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.<\/span>
\nAnthony Robbins<\/span><\/p>\n

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.<\/span>
\nSusie Orbach<\/span><\/p>\n

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.<\/span>
\nSamuel Pepys<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nPeace Pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

He who eats alone chokes alone.<\/span>
\nArabian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s better that it should make you sick than that you don’t eat it at all.<\/span>
\nCatalan Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t dig your grave with your knife and fork.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb <\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.<\/span>
\nTurkish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

When one has tasted it [watermelon] he knows what the angels eat.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.<\/span>
\nSaadi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.<\/span>
\nGeorge Santayana<\/span><\/p>\n

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.<\/span>
\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.<\/span>
\nElsa Schiaparelli<\/span><\/p>\n

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ideas<\/a>
Ideas and quotes on food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seven’s a banquet nine a brawl.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.<\/span>
\nGloria Steinem<\/span><\/p>\n

Lunch is for wimps.<\/span>
\nOliver Stone<\/span><\/p>\n

Man shall not live by bread alone.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Put a knife to thy throat, if you’re a man given to appetite.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Much meat, much disease.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Fang drops so much food on his ties we keep them in the refrigerator.<\/span>
\nPhyllis Diller<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.<\/span>
\nDogen<\/span><\/p>\n

A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.<\/span>
\nIzaak Walton<\/span><\/p>\n

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.<\/span>
\nLin Yutang<\/span><\/p>\n

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