Food Quotes

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Philip W. Haberman

Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchinson

If you wish to grow thinner diminish your dinner.

H. S. Leigh

To a man with an empty stomach food is god.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hunger is the best sauce.

Proverbs

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two he replies four loaves.

Hindu proverb

A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.

Arthur Pendenys

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

J. K. Galbraith

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

French proverb

It is a hard matter my fellow citizens to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Plutarch

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

Cyril Connolly

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian proverb

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

French proverb

Fish to taste right must swim three times - in water in butter and in wine.

Polish proverb

At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.

Mason Cooley

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.

Walter de la Mare

Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

George Meredith

Hunger is not debatable.

Harry Hopkins

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

W Somerset Maugham

To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

Charles

Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

Yogi Berra

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

W Somerset Maugham

There is no such thing as a little garlic.

Anonymous

Even were a cook to cook a fly he would keep the breast for himself.

Polish proverb

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

Christopher Morley

A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai Stevenson

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Seneca

I feel a recipe is only a theme which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.

Madame Benoit

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. I'm not one of the worst, boss, nor yet one of the best. I'm somewhere in between the two. What I eat I turn into work and good humor. That's not too bad, after all!'He looked at me wickedly and started laughing.'As for you, boss,' he said, 'I think you do your level best to turn what you eat into God. But you can't quite manage it, and that torments you. The same thing's happening to you as happened to the crow.''What happened to the crow, Zorba?''Well, you see, he used to walk respectably, properly - well, like a crow. But one day he got it into his head to try and strut about like a pigeon. And from that time on the poor fellow couldn't for the life of him recall his own way of walking. He was all mixed up, don't you see? He just hobbled about.

Nikos Kazantzakis

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

Michael Pollan

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one hour of labour per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has been shown clearly and definitely. Each person should ponder seriously how much hardship he is causing by indulging in food so expensively produced.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The way I saw it, one of the single greatest advantages of being in a relationship was that you got to eat off the other person's plate.

Nicole Peeler

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty

Lemony Snicket

It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now.

Lili St. Crow

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Robert Walser

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.

Barry Estabrook

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

Lisi Harrison

Get out of bed and feed me already, person!

Rachel Cohn

Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.

Muriel Barbery

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

Joseph Livesey

I would like to coin the phrase alimentary theology, a theology that is more attentive to and welcoming of the multiple layers contained and implied in the making of theology. This is a theology that not only pays closer attention to matters related to food and nourishment, and the many ways they can relate, inspire, and inform theological reflection. Most importantly, it is an envisioning of theology as nourishment: food as theology and theology as food. Alimentary theology is envisioned as food for thought; it addresses some of the spiritual and physical hungers of the world, and seeks ways of bringing about nourishment.

Angel F. Mendez Montoya

This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

John Davies of Hereford

Big food companies make hot dogs with mechanically separated meat (msm) that, as described matter-of-factly by the [USDA], is "a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones with attached edible meat under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue.". I read that and wanted to unread it.

Jennifer Reese

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

James Patterson

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

C.S. Lewis

Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

Enid Blyton

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Louis Zamperini

I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.

Seanan McGuire

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

George R.R. Martin

Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies.

Steven Levenkron

I'm going on a diet. (Crud, I know)I am going to be cranky. I am going to be irritable.I am going to be moody and sad and mean. And, yes, I am going to be hungry. Please don't feed me, even if I try to bite you. Please don't tease me, I may hurt you.Please don't try to encourage me, I may growl and snap at you. Please don't help me, I may blame you for everything aggravating in the known universe. Please don't be offended by my scowl, I cannot smile. But most importantly, please keep your distance until this trial is over to prevent any unnecessary casualties. Thank you for your understanding.

Richelle E. Goodrich

A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau

Karl Pilkington

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

Esi Edugyan

I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true environmental impact of agriculture permits them any comfortable distance from cruelty. Everything in this world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether running on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather continue to live rather than become sustenance for another. No animal wants to be penned up and milked, or caged and harvested, and you've never seen plants growing in regimented lines of their own accord.

Brian Awehali

Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat.

John Robbins

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