Food Quotes - Page 3

• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cheesy

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• Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

  Richard Whately

  Tables, Dinner, Arguing

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• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Music, Literature, Dinner

  Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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• Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

  Lyle Lovett

  Love, Beautiful, Sweet

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• Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

  Judith Jones

  Giving, Cooking, Attention

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  All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

  John Gunther

  Happiness, Happy, Cooking

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• Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Without Feathers "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" (1975)

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• The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
  barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

  Samuel Chamberlain

  Art, People, Cooking

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• Bread is the staff of life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bread, Eating, Staff

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Tale of a Tub, 1922.

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• This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

  Gracie Allen

  Silly, Eggs, Two

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• You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Eating Good, Cooking, Needs

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• You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Character, Patriotic, Epic

  In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981

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• Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cooking, World, Sauce

  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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• If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

  Diogenes

  Cooking, Hunger, Easy

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Writing, Hunger, Basic Needs

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

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• Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

  Enrico Caruso

  Drinking, Faces, Fruits And Vegetables

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• I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Worry, Cooking, Want

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Health

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• Kissing don't last: cookery do!

  George Meredith

  Kissing, Cooking, Lasts

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 28

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• Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

  Sally Schneider

  Comfort, Stuff, Trendy

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• Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

  Ted Allen

  Two, Dishes

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

  Moliere

  Inspiring, Weight Loss, Healthy Habits

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

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• Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cucumbers, Vinegar, Peppers

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 5 October 1773

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• What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

  Lucretius

  Men, Poison, May

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