Quote: We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. Author: Jeff Arder
Quote: I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. Author: John Barrymore 1882-1942, American Actor
Quote: Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food. Author: Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer
Quote: A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. Author: James Beard Father of Modern American Cooking
Quote: Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. Author: Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827, German Composer
Quote: Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received. Author: Walter Benjamin 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Yogi Berra 1925-, American Baseball Player
Quote: Man shall not live by bread alone. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: 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. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: 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. Author: Alice May Brock
Quote: 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. Author: Bill Bryson American Author
Quote: Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet. Author: Burton
Quote: 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. Author: George Bush 1924-, Forty-first President of the USA
Quote: Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. Author: Barbara Cartland 1901-, British Novelist
Quote: It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. Author: Cato The Elder BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator
Quote: For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin. Author: Charles II 1630-1685, King of England and Ireland
Quote: Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it. Author: William Collier
Quote: The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. Author: Cyril Connolly 1903-1974, British Critic
Quote: It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. Author: Alistair Cooke 1908-, British Broadcaster, Journalist
Quote: To eat is human, to digest divine. Author: Charles T. Copeland
Quote: Square meals often make round people. Author: E. Joseph Cossman American Businessman, Author, Lecturer
Quote: I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people. Author: Rodney Dangerfield American Comedian, Actor
Quote: Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle. Author: Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. Author: Cliff Fadiman American Writer
Quote: 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 entrTes, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure. Author: Edna Ferber 1887-1968, American Author
Quote: I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Author: Totie Fields
Quote: Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. Author: M. F. K. Fisher
Quote: The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything. Author: Redd Foxx
Quote: It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions. Author: St. Francis De Sales 1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer
Quote: One should eat to live, not live to eat. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: More die in the United States from too much food that from too little. Author: John Kenneth Galbraith 1908-, American Economist
Quote: God comes to the hungry in the form of food. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. Author: W. S. Gilbert 1836-1911, British Librettist
Quote: 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. Author: Paul Goodman 1911-1972, American Author, Poet, Critic
Quote: A gourmet is just a glutton with brains. Author: Phillip H. Haberman Jr.
Quote: As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. Author: Buddy Hackett
Quote: A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life. Author: Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra
Quote: The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. Author: Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher
Quote: Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking. Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: We seldom report of having eaten too little. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: 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. Author: Nikita Khrushchev 1894-1971, Soviet Premier
Quote: Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet. Author: Harry Kurnitz
Quote: I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee. Author: Burt Lancaster 1913-1994, American Actor
Quote: The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. Author: Frances Moore Lappe
Quote: Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. Author: Fran Lebowitz 1951-, American Journalist
Quote: Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Author: Fran Lebowitz 1951-, American Journalist
Quote: If you're going to America, bring your own food. Author: Fran Lebowitz 1951-, American Journalist
Quote: Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. Author: Fran Lebowitz 1951-, American Journalist
Quote: 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. Author: Joe E. Lewis American Writer
Quote: Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Author: Sophia Loren 1934-, Italian Film Actress
Quote: Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them. Author: Tyrius Maximus
Quote: It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it. Author: Delbert Mcclinton
Quote: You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: We are digging our graves with our teeth. Author: Thomas Moffett American Physician
Quote: Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. Author: Charles De Montesquieu 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher
Quote: No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Author: Christopher Morley 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet
Quote: Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. Author: Hector Hugh Munro 1870-1916, British Novelist, Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Hector Hugh Munro 1870-1916, British Novelist, Writer
Quote: We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness. Author: Susie Orbach
Quote: We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''
Quote: Avoid fresh 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 in the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Don't look back. Someone might be gaining on you. Author: Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige 1906?-1982, American Baseball Player
Quote: Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. Author: Samuel Pepys 1633-1703, British Diarist
Quote: Never eat anything you can't lift. Author: Miss Piggy
Quote: Never eat more than you can lift. Author: Miss Piggy
Quote: 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. Author: Peace Pilgrim 1908-1981, American Peace Activist
Quote: Abstain from beans. Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: Gluttony kills more than the sword. Author: Proverb
Quote: Hunger is a good cook. Author: Proverb
Quote: Much meat, much disease. Author: Proverb
Quote: Seven's a banquet nine a brawl. Author: Proverb
Quote: The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. Author: Proverb
Quote: He who eats alone chokes alone. Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin
Quote: It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all. Author: Catalan Proverb
Quote: Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: A good meal ought to begin with hunger. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. Author: Hebrew Proverb Sayings of Hebrew Origin
Quote: 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. Author: New England Proverb
Quote: Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. Author: Turkish Proverb Sayings of Turkish Origin
Quote: 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. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. Author: Saadi
Quote: There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: To eat is to appropriate by destruction. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Elsa Schiaparelli 1896-1973, Italian Fashion Designer
Quote: My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947-, Austrian-born American Actor, Author, Director, Restaurateur
Quote: There is no love sincerer than the love of food. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency. Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
Quote: Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: 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. Author: Gloria Steinem 1934-, American Feminist Writer, Editor
Quote: Lunch is for wimps. Author: Oliver Stone 1946-, American Director, Writer, Producer
Quote: 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. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: When one has tasted it [Watermelon] he knows what the angels eat. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. Author: Peter De Vries 1910-, American Author
Quote: Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: 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. Author: Arthur Winter
Quote: One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist