Eating Quotes

Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree

Elizabeth Russell

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: "I don't like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate."

Unknown

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Doug Larson

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

Joyce Brothers

The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.

African Proverb

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Wallace Irwin

Mincing your words makes it easier if you have to eat them later.

Franklin P. Jones

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

If we're not supposed to eat animals ... how come they're made out of meat?

Anonymous

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

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Bible

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?

Bible

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

Lord Byron