Food Quotes

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Good food ends with good talk.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

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

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

There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.

I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.

Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

Fat people, it is commonly held, should be punished because they offend our aesthetic sensibilities. They take up too much space on subways, buses, airplanes, and elevators. They consume more than they contribute to society. They become ill and need to be taken care of, or they die early and their families are left unsupported. The only way fat people can gain some acceptance and forgiveness for their crime of overeating is to at least try, or look like they are trying, to lose weight. They must never eat an ice cream cone in public, never be seen eating a normal sized portion of non-diet food!

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.

The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When it comes to healthy eating, people who know how to cook and make ingredients taste good have a distinct advantage over those who can't.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.

Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Never eat more than you can lift.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

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

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

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

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Man is what he eats.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Health food makes me sick.

A dinner lubricates business.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

My favorite animal is steak.

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.

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

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.

I sacrifice to no god save myself � And to my belly, greatest of deities.

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

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

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