Food And Eating Quotes:

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.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

source: Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

topic: Life, Food, Giving, Goodwill, Morale

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Heart, People, Giving, Delicious Food, Favorite Foods

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

- Confucius

topic: Food, Cutting, Meat, Eating Food, Great Food

So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else."

- Brian Yorkey

source: "13 Reasons Why: Tape 6, Side A". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2017.

topic: Food, Cooking, Firsts, Eating Food, Best Food

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

- Kin Hubbard

topic: Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Kitchen, Carving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Food, Carpe Diem, Weight Loss, Seize The Moment, Delicious Food

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

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Food, Cutting, Vegetables, Food And Eating, American Food

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

- A. A. Milne

source: "Not That It Matters".

topic: Beauty, Food, Home Cooking, Eating Food, Great Food

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Funny Inspirational, Children, Food, Inspirational Health, Favorite Foods

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

- George Orwell

topic: Running, Food, Gun, Food Safety, Food And Eating

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Witty, Humorous, Drinking, Delicious Food, I Love Food

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Food, Adventure, Oysters, Delicious Food, Kitchen Confidential

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

- Fran Lebowitz

source: FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

topic: Life, Children, Humorous, Having Kids, Parenthood Funny

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

topic: Drinking, Beer, Weight Loss, Spanish And English, Merry

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

- Sabrina Jeffries

topic: Heart, Men, Way, Funny Sex, Funny Men

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

- Enrico Caruso

topic: Food, Faces, Fruit, Washing, Eating Food

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Fitness, Art, Food, Eating Healthy, Eating Healthy Food

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

topic: Food, Helping, Eating Food, Great Food, Healthy Eating

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Food, Cucumbers, Vinegar, Eating Food, Cooking And Eating

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

topic: Love, Food, Health, Spanish Proverb, Slow Food

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Yummy, Delicious Food

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

- Orson Welles

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Food, Health, Weight Loss, Eating Dinner, Food And Eating

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Food, Sick, Dying, Delicious Food, Eating Food

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Life, Happiness, Music, Hunger For Food, Delicious Food

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

- Julia Child

topic: Funny, Food, Waiting, Indian Food, Delicious Food

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

- Unknown

topic: Horse, Food, Garden, Slow Food, Inspirational Gardening

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

- Doug Larson

topic: Food, Vegetables, Green, Spiritual Health, I Love Food

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

- Socrates

topic: Healthy Habits, Motivational Diet, Eating Meat, Living Healthy, Eating Food

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

- Michael Pollan

topic: Health, Grandmother, Great Men, Healthy Living, Inspirational Health

People who love to eat are always the best people.

- Julia Child

topic: Love, Food, People, Delicious Food, I Love Food

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

- Harriet Van Horne

source: 1956 Vogue, Oct.

topic: Love, Food, Memorable, I Love Food, Food Love

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

- Lewis Grizzard

topic: Summer, Food, Garden, Delicious Food, Homegrown

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

- John Gunther

topic: Happiness, Food, Breakfast, Delicious Food, Eating Food

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

- Buddy Hackett

topic: Funny, Family, Fitness, Menus, Your Mom

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

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Food, Men, Thinking, Earnestness, Eating Food

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

- Jim Davis

source: Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

topic: Food, Funny Thanksgiving, Cake, Delicious Food, Sweets And Desserts

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

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Food, Eating Food, Cooking And Eating

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

- Woody Allen

topic: Witty, Food, Oysters, Delicious Food, Eating Food

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

- Alfred Austin

source: "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

topic: Horse, Food, Journey, Slow Food, Inspirational Gardening

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

- Samuel Pepys

source: 'Diary' 9 November 1665

topic: Dinner, Strange, Feasting, Food And Eating, Family Dinner

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic, Indian Food, Eating Food

Avoid fried 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 on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

- Satchel Paige

source: 1976 'Six Rules for a Happy Life', which he had inscribed on business cards, offered to fans seeking his autograph.

topic: Running, Lying, Moving, Health And Fitness, Food And Eating

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: 1850 Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

topic: Food, Reason, Deny, Food And Eating

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Love, Food, Heart, Delicious Food, Favorite Foods

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

- Bill Bryson

source: Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

topic: Food, Effort, Drug, Junk Food, Food And Eating

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

- Erich Fromm

source: Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Animal, Men, Boredom, Indian Food, Eating Food

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

- Jo Brand

topic: Sex, Food, Heart, Funny Men, Eating Food

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

topic: Home, Memorable, House, Eating And Drinking, Eating Out

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

- Ann Wigmore

source: Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

topic: Powerful, Health, Weekend, Inspirational Health, Healthy Eating