Eating Quotes

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Henry Fieding

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiaparelli

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

George H.W. Bush

When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan, Even before he gets so far As the place where the clustered palm-trees are, At the last of the thirty palace-gates The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, Orders a feast in his favorite room-- Glittering square of colored ice, Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice, Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates, Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes and citrons and apricots, And wines that are known to Eastern princes.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

Bible

All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.

Lord Byron

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Cervantes

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Cicero

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.

George Herbert

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

Voltaire

We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.

Steve Elbert

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

Annita Manning

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning.

John Barrymore

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people

Elizabeth Berry

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, thatís bad for you

Tommy Smothers

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat

Robert Fuoss

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat

Robert Fuoss

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Buddy Hackett

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

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating

Luciano Pavarotti

After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.

Miss Piggy

You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

Earl Wilson

0 1 23 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z