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The Best Food Quotes - Cooking, Dining and Eating Quatations (Part 2)
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
My favorite animal is steak.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.
- Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, 2010
We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.
- Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, 2010
Good food ends with good talk.
- Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 1
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- George Dennison Prentice
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
- James Beard
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
- Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.
- Kelly Barton
It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
A dinner lubricates business.
- Lord William Stowell
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
Man is what he eats.
- Ludwig Feuerbach
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
- M. F. K. Fisher
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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