Eating Quotes - Page 9

• If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

  Leigh Hunt

  Food, Loss, Hunting

  1851 Table- Talk,'Eating'.

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• I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Fast Food, Intrigued

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• One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Mind, Expansion, Bears

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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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• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

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• The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

  Fanny Fern

  Sex, Food, Heart

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.32, Rutgers University Press

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• Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.1, Penguin

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• Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Funny, Food, Health

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• They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Knives, Forks

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.373

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• He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Men, Oysters

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Food, Home Cooking

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• They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny Inspirational, Loss, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

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• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Book, Passion

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

  Socrates

  Food, Beer, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Inspirational Life

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Taste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 236

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• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Thinking, Sausage

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.195, BookRix

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• To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  May, Reason, Enjoy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Apples, Literature, Opinion

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• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Ghana, Making Love, Cards

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• The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

  Horace

  Sauce, Pleasure, Flavour

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• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Men, Ice Cream, Talking

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• I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

  Rue McClanahan

  Vegetarian Diet, Family History, Diets

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• Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

  William Shakespeare

  Ribs, Rich, Fats

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