Quotes on Food

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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.

One can say everything best over a meal.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

With enough butter, anything is good

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.

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

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.