Food And Eating Quotes

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.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

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

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

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

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

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

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

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.

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

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

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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

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

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

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

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

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

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.

So there I was, wondering what sort of things women would look for in a video game. I sat in cafés and listened to what they were talking about: mostly it was fashion and boyfriends. Neither of those was really the stuff of a good video game. Then they started talking about food - about cakes and sweets and fruit - and it hit me: that food and eating would be the thing to concentrate on to get the girls interested.

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

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

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

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

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

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.