Food Quotes

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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, Community, Identity

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• The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.

  Alex Atala

  Powerful, Media, Internet

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• To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fitness, Art, Weight Loss

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  People who love to eat are always the best people.

  Julia Child

  Love, Eating Good, People

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Health, Cooking

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Cooking Dinner

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Sleep, Health

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Ayurveda, Drug

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• We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Health, Eating Well

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

  Edna Lewis

  Learning, African American, Cooking

  Edna Lewis (2013). “In Pursuit of Flavor”, p.7, Knopf

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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Godly

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• I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

  Totie Fields

  Drinking, Failure, Weight Loss

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• Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

  Dorothy Day

  Soul, Body, Culinary

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Home Cooking, Magic

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• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Love, Heart, Commitment

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• Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

  Epictetus

  Passion, Cooking, Mind

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Godly, Cooking

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• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Love, Health, Inspire

  1949 An Alphabet for Gourmets,'A Is for Dining Alone'.

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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

  Science, Men, Pigs

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

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• Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

  Epictetus

  Cooking, Silent, Culinary

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• We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

  Epicurus

  Thanksgiving, Beer, Dine In

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• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wisdom, Educational

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• Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

  Pythagoras

  Sea, Parent, Salt

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