Quotes and Sayings About Food
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
-- A. A. Milne -
When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
-- A. A. Milne -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
-- A. J. Liebling -
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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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 -
Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
-- Aesop -
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
-- Alain de Botton -
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Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
-- Alain Ducasse -
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert Einstein -
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
-- Albert Ellis -
Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.
-- Albert Ellis -
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
-- Aldous Huxley -
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
-- Alexander WoollcottSource : "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
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It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
-- Alison Croggon -
I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto -
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Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.
-- Alton BrownSource : Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins
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Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
-- Alton Brown -
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Edible, adj.: 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.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
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Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies.
-- Andre Simon -
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.
-- Andre Simon