Food Quotes - Page 11

• Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

  John Keats

  Book, Wine, Doors

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• Everything in moderation, including moderation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Moderation

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• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Birthday, Fitness

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• My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Regret, Wine, Champagne Drinking

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• You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Snow, Cooking, May

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• Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Easter, Vegetables

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.129, Vintage

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• We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

  Joseph Conrad

  Views, Meditation, Cooking

  Joseph Conrad, Harold Ray Stevens, J. H. Stape (2010). “Last Essays”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
  if the wine had been as old as the turkey;
  and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
  it would have been a swell dinner.

  Duncan Hines

  Wine, Turkeys, Dinner

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• Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kitchen

  Jonathan Swift (1738). “A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation: According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England”, p.154

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• Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

  Frank Muir

  Simple, Leaving, Cooking

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• America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

  Isadora Duncan

  Sarcastic, Art, America

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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

  Men, Apples, Juan

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

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• Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

  Sophia Loren

  Beauty, Inspiration, Cooking

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• Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vegetarianism, Two, People

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• I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

  Julia Child

  Inspiration, Home Cooking, Kitchen

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• Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

  Roland Joffe

  Sitting Down, Meals, Different

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• Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Health, Rights

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• When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Cooking, Intelligence, Friendly

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• Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Wise, Wisdom, Jobs

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• I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.

  W. C. Fields

  Horse, Meat, Tough

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• There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

  Robert Frost

  Wife, Funny Marriage, Cooking

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• All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

  Sybille Bedford

  Eggs, Truffles, Miraculous

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• What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

  Alexander Pope

  Health, Anxiety, Disease

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• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Animal, Compassion

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