Food Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Martin H. Fischer,
Fran Lebowitz,
Mark Twain
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| Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. |
| - Edward Abbey |
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| Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. |
| - Fred Allen |
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| I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: "I don't like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate." |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| He who eats alone chokes alone. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate! |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas. |
| - Roseanne Barr |
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| I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning. |
| - John Barrymore |
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| You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. |
| - Yogi Berra |
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| 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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| Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. |
| - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin |
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| Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are. |
| - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin |
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| I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. |
| - Heywood Broun |
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| Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. |
| - Robert Byrne |
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| All sorrows are less with bread. |
| - Miguel de Cervantes |
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| Hunger is the best sauce in the world. |
| - Miguel de Cervantes |
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| The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. |
| - Confucius |
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| Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat. |
| - Jim Davis |
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| Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. |
| - Jim Davis |
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| The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink... |
| - Epicurus |
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| Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. |
| - Clifton Fadiman |
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| Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. |
| - Jim Fiebig |
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| A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Life goes faster on protein. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. |
| - Robert Frost |
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| It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. |
| - Lewis Grizzard |
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| I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day. |
| - Terri Guillemets |
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| All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. |
| - John Gunther |
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| As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. |
| - Buddy Hackett |
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| I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. |
| - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
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| Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. |
| - Harriet van Horne |
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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 |
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| We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. |
| - Lee Iacocca |
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| The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. |
| - William Ralph Inge |
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| You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit. |
| - Franklin P. Jones |
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| Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. |
| - Don Kardong |
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| Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn. |
| - Garrison Keillor |
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| You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. |
| - Charles Kuralt |
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| Food is an important part of a balanced diet. |
| - Fran Lebowitz |
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| Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. |
| - Fran Lebowitz |
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| My favorite animal is steak. |
| - Fran Lebowitz |
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| Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. |
| - Fran Lebowitz |
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| The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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| We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. |
| - Alfred E. Newman |
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| We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. |
| - William Osler |
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| After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. |
| - Miss Piggy |
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| No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. |
| - Channing Pollock |
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| To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. |
| - Emily Post |
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| We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. |
| - J.B. Priestley |
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| The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. |
| - English Proverb |
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| An empty belly is the best cook. |
| - Estonian Proverb |
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| Rice is born in water and must die in wine. |
| - Italian Proverb |
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| Worries go down better with soup. |
| - Jewish Proverb |
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| Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine. |
| - Polish Proverb |
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| The belly rules the mind. |
| - Spanish Proverb |
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| If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. |
| - Carl Sagan |
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| Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| There is no love sincerer than the love of food. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. |
| - Sydney Smith |
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| It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. |
| - Meryl Streep |
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| He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| 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 |
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| Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. |
| - Voltaire |
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| You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. |
| - Earl Wilson |
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| There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. |
| - Thomas Wolfe |
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| What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? |
| - Lin Yutang |
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