Eating Food Quotes - Page 3

• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

  Judith Viorst

  Inspirational, Strength, Food

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Thinking, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales”, p.390

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• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Love, Food, Heart

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• Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

  Epictetus

  Food, Cooking, Silent

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  All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

  John Gunther

  Happiness, Happy, Food

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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

  Food, Cooking, Firsts

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

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• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Adventure, Oysters

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  A. A. Milne

  Beauty, Food, Home Cooking

  "Not That It Matters".

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• All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

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• Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Food, Home Cooking

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• A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

  Lord Byron

  Drinking, Food, Salad

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.12, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Meryl Streep

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Food

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• When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

  Will Smith

  Love, Life, Friends

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• I am a creative person and it's important for me to get that out there, kind of like eating food. It's something I need to do to feel happy. It's some kind of drive and I don't know how to explain what the reason is, but it's something I have a need to do.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Creative, Important, Kind

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, House, Pet

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• Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

  Anna Thomas

  Food, Animal, Needs

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

  Mason Cooley

  Food, Promise, Eating

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• Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.

  Rose Macaulay

  Taken, Food, Fall

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.75, A&C Black

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• The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.

  Ryan Adams

  Interesting, Cooking, Eating

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.

  Bill Hicks

  Miracle, Ass, Eating

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• I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

  Richard Simmons

  Father, Reading, Book

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

  Carol Tavris

  Food, Two, Worry

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