Food Quotes - Page 4

• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  Orson Welles

  Health, Weight Loss, Doctors

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

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• If food were free, why work?

  Douglas Horton

  Food Safety, Ifs

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• A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Wine, Vegetables

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Wise, Art

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

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• My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Philosophy, Wine, Sleep

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

  James Beard

  Drinking, Thinking, Home Cooking

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Men, Doe

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales”, p.390

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• Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

  Socrates

  Weight Loss, Healthy Habits, Healthy Weight

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• He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greed, Cooking, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Culinary, Plates

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• The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Cooking, Dining

  "Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne".

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• It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Garden, Thinking

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• Hunger is the best sauce.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sauce, Hunger

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• The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

  Lewis Carroll

  Yesterday, Cooking, Promise

  Though the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• He who comes first, eats first.

  Eike of Repgow

  Firsts

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• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  Quintilian

  Life, Mind, Appetite

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.59

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• The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

  Julia Child

  Funny, Vegetables, Home Cooking

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• There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Wine, Drunk, Broken

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Funny, Men

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2010

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• Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  William Shakespeare

  Home Cooking, Entrepreneur, Culinary

  1595 Servingman to Capulet. Romeo andJuliet, act 4, sc.2, l.6.

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• Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

  Paul Lynde

  Needs, Sandwiches, Spoons

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• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  Ted Nugent

  Funny, Hunting, Ideas

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Wine is bottled poetry.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Drinking, Wine

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4365, Delphi Classics

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Inspiration, College

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Vegetables, Smell

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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