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Food Quotes
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
Adelle Davis
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
Adelle Davis 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.
Alice May Brock
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
Cyra McFadden
He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]
Eike von Repkow (~1220), Sachsenspiegel
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Good food ends with good talk.
Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child (1912 - )
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.
Kelly Barton
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell
Man is what he eats.
Ludwig Feuerbach
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981
If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.
Sefer Hasidim
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Thomas Tusser, 1524
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1 |  |
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