Eating Quotes

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

Matthew Henry

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

George Herbert

Gluttony kills more then the sword.

George Herbert

There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye

Unknown

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn

Garrison Keillor

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Unknown

The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis

Beatrice & Ira Freeman

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate

Diogenes

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

Lewis Grizzard

I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians.

Pat McNelis

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

I take a vitamin every day. It's called a steak.

Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick

This is every cook's opinion -no savory dish without an onion,but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.

Jonathan Swift

If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture.

Audrey Foris

If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture.

Audrey Foris

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

Woody Allen

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

Bill Bryson

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

Elsie de Wolfe

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

Ambrose Bierce

He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.

James I

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

Bert Greene

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