• The Best Food Quotes - Cooking, Dining and Eating Quatations (Part 3)

The Best Food Quotes - Cooking, Dining and Eating Quatations (Part 3)

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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

 

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

-Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

 

Never eat more than you can lift.

-Miss Piggy

 

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

-Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)

 

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

-Molly Wizenberg

 

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

-Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

 

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

-Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

 

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

-P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )

 

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

-Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

 

A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.

-Raelle Tucker, True Blood, Cold Ground, 2008

 

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

-Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11

 

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

-Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981

 

There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

-Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

 

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

-Sefer Hasidim

 

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

-Sheila Graham

 

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

-Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

 

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

-Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

 

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

-Thomas Tusser, 1524

 

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

-Totie Fields

 

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

-W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

 

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

-W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

 

I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.

-Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-10-10

 

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1

 

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

 

-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet

 

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