Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed…I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.
Delia Smith
Eat to live and not live to eat.
Proverb
An apple-pie without some cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
Proverb
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
James Hillman
An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon I
A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass.
Proverb
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
Samuel Johnson
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
Proverb
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
W. Somerset Maugham
Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese – toasted, mostly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire
Don’t eat too many almonds; they add weight to the breasts.
Colette
Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.
Gael Greene
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Joe E. Lewis
Bread is the staff of life.
Proverb
We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.
Steve Elbert
Kissing don’t last: cookery do!
George Meredith
He who eats alone chokes alone.
Proverb
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Fanny Fern
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
Lin Yutang
Eat little, sleep sound.
Iranian Proverb
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
English Proverb
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
Benjamin Disraeli
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.
Garrison Keillor
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Molière
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
I live on good food, not fine words.
Moliere
Watermelon—it’s a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
Enrico Caruso
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
Andrew Weil
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
Anonymous
Sugar is a type of bodily fuel, yes, but your body runs about as well on it as a car would.
V.L. Allineare
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
Epicurus
Don’t forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms.
Martin H. Fischer
I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
N.F. Simpson
Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can’t taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.
Astrid Alauda
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Robert Redford
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
Annita Manning
You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.
Arnold Wesker
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
Samuel Johnson
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.
Kelly Barton
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
An empty belly is the best cook.
Estonian Proverb
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Dunne
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
Pat Buchanan
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Mark Twain
Soup is liquid comfort.
Anonymous
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet van Horne
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton
I take a vitamin every day. It’s called a steak.
Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick
Rice is born in water and must die in wine.
Italian Proverb
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Epictetus
Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman