Food Quotes - Page 2

• There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thanksgiving, Witty, Humorous

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• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

  Franz Kafka

  Long, Cooking, Mouths

  "Investigations of a Dog". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Book, Home

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.64, Algora Publishing

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• After a full belly all is poetry.

  Frank McCourt

  Eating, Belly

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• It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Spiritual, Evil, Wish

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• The people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Heart, Eating Good, People

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Cooking, Comforting, Culinary

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• Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

  Hippocrates

  Yoga, Health, Medicine

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• When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

  Euripides

  Money, Men, Rich Or Poor

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• All sorrows are less with bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cooking Classes, Home Cooking, Sorrow

  "The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, p. 530, 1902.

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• This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

  Julia Child

  Fun, Mistake, Inspiration

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.261, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

  Lin Yutang

  Ayurveda, Cooking, Lap

  Yutang Lin (1940). “The Importance of Living”

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• A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

  George Orwell

  Bags, Eating, Humans

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.62, Jester House Publishing

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• It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

  Emmet Fox

  Character, Mind, Determine

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• It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

  Waverley Root

  Destiny, Cooking, Culinary

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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• Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Money, Medicine, Culinary

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• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Health, Science, Cooking

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.

  Charles Poliquin

  Health, Mouths, Eating

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• Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

  Albert Ellis

  Hands, Decision, Mouths

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• 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

  Garden, Vegetables, Cooking

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Funny, Humorous, Novelists

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.51

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Unrequited Love, Romantic Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• I get way too much happiness from good food.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Happiness, Being Happy, Joy

  "Actress Elizabeth Olsen Travels with Sea Salt". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. October 04, 2013.

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• So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else."

  Brian Yorkey

  Cooking, Firsts, Culinary

  "13 Reasons Why: Tape 6, Side A". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2017.

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