Eating Quotes

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists

Joan Gussow

Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution

Irwin Van Grove

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie

Craig Claiborne

You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile.

Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie

If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable

Grey Livingston

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

William Ralph Inge

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

P.J. O\'Rourke

Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.

Jim Davis

I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good - if it's the pepper or the oni.

Ulrik Stephens

All sorrows are less with bread.

Miguel de Cervantes

This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke

Jane Grigson

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention

Christopher Morley

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine

Polish Proverb

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

St Frances de Sales

Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread

M.F.K. Fisher

I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.

Martha Harrison

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet van Horne

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Mark Twain

Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life

Sydney Smith

Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microˆrganisms

Martin H. Fischer

Soup is liquid comfort