Food And Eating Quotes - Page 3

• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

  Jo Brand

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Happiness, Oysters, Unhappy

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

  Ann Wigmore

  Motivational, Powerful, Food

  Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

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• 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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• He hath eaten me out of house and home.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Memorable, House

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

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• Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.

  Satchel Paige

  Moving, Juice, Carrying On

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

  John Barrymore

  Good Morning, Food, Giving

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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• I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Reason, Deny

  1850 Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

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• Man is the only animal that can be bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

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

  Cesar Chavez

  Food, Heart, Eating Good

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

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• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

  Confucius

  Food, Cutting, Cooking

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• Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Running, Lying, Moving

  1976 'Six Rules for a Happy Life', which he had inscribed on business cards, offered to fans seeking his autograph.

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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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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• The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Sex, Food

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• Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

  Samuel Pepys

  Inspirational, Dinner, Strange

  'Diary' 9 November 1665

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

  Euripides

  Money, Food, Men

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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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• You are what what you eat eats.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Healthy Eating, Eating

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.112, Penguin

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• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Eating Well, Dieting

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

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