Eating Quotes

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

The belly rules the mind

Spanish Proverb

My favorite animal is steak.

Fran Lebowitz

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

William Osler

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

G.K. Chesterton

A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed.

George Rosenbaum

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great

Henry

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Robert Byrne

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait

JosÈ Simons

If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?

Ymber Delecto

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.

Old New York Proverb

Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

Fran Lebowitz

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

Confucius

I eat merely to put food out of my mind

N.F. Simpson

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.

Unknown

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

Linda Henley

An empty belly is the best cook

Estonian Proverb

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

Sally Edwards

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Robert Frost

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime

Edward Abbey

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.

Martin H. Fischer

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