Eating Quotes - Page 7

• Am I eating chicken or tuna?

  Jessica Simpson

  Ice Cream, Tuna, Chickens

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• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  Orson Welles

  Business, Hate, Nuts

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• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Eating Well, Dieting

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

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• Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1733). “The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface”, p.31

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• I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that.

  Suzanne Somers

  Thinking, Years, Skinny

  "A Conversation with Suzanne Somers". Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Food, Science

  Iris Murdoch (1989). “The Book and the Brotherhood”, p.32, Penguin

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• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  Sally Schneider

  Thinking, Important, Feels

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• I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Hair, Talking, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

  Harvey Korman

  Airports, Rooms, Tough

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• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  Ralph Steadman

  Ice Cream, Rolling, Done

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• I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Cooking, Cookery

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• I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

  Colin Baker

  Forever, Sausage, Vices

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• Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Spoons, Diners

  "Political Georgics" by Thomas B. Macaulay, June 29, 1831.

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• I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

  Martial

  Lakes, Water, Noble

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• You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

  Martial

  Giving, Wish, Three

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

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• See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

  Martial

  Fats, Grows, Geese

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

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• If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

  Martial

  Bird, Delicacy, Opinion

  Martial (1904). “The Epigrams of Martial”

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• Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lord, Porpoises, Feds

  Jonathan Swift (1741). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.326

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• The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

  Moliere

  Genuine, Dine

  "Amphitryon" by Molière, III. 5, 1690.

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• If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

  William Shakespeare

  Eggs, Shells, Chickens

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.170, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?

  William Shakespeare

  Beef, Pieces, Mustard

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 3, l. [23]

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• My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Cake, Share, Dough

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.508

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• A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

  Lewis Carroll

  Oysters, Needs, Bread

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.29, PDFreeBooks.org

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• A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Food, Optimistic

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Food, Eating Well, Giving

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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