Quotes on Food And Eating

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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

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

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

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

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.

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.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

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

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

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.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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