Eating Quotes - Page 10

• The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

  George McGovern

  War, Cancer, Political

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• Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

  Robert Herrick

  Tables, Merriment

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.131

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• Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Thinking, Sausage

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.195, BookRix

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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• One should eat to live, not live to eat.

  Moliere

  Inspiring, Food, Weight Loss

  1668 L' Avare, act 3, sc.1.

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• Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

  Unknown

  Horse, Food, Garden

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• When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

  Will Smith

  Love, Life, Friends

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• 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

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

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• He hath eaten me out of house and home.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Memorable, House

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Food

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

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• Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

  Bennett Cerf

  Food, Cooking, Soup

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• I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Ice Cream, Snacks

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• Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Teacher, People

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• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  Barbra Streisand

  Success, Congratulations, Ice Cream

  Quoted in Life, 20 Sept. 1963

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• When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Elephants, Bites

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

  Charles Lamb

  Hate, Men, Knowing

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• Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
  [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
  [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

  Juvenal

  Reason, Palate, Solo

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• The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

  Alan Watts

  Animal, Men, Brain

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Sex, Food

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

  James Beard

  Drinking, Food, Thinking

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• 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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Science, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

  Michael Pollan

  Family, Food, Community

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