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Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire
There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. ~Author Unknown
We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking. ~Steve Elbert
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? ~Annita Manning
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn. ~Garrison Keillor
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. ~Author Unknown
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning. ~John Barrymore
Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. ~Elizabeth Berry
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ~Channing Pollock
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. ~Author Unknown
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. ~Robert Fuoss
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ~Buddy Hackett
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ~Ambrose Bierce
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy
The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis. ~Beatrice & Ira Freeman
You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. ~Earl Wilson
The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
My favorite animal is steak. ~Fran Lebowitz
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. ~William Osler
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ~Diogenes the Cynic
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ~Fran Lebowitz
A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. ~George Rosenbaum
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. ~Henry IV of France
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ~Lewis Grizzard
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. ~José Simons
I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians. ~Pat McNelis
Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas. ~Roseanne, "Don't Make Me Over," May 1992, spoken by character Dan Conner
A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~Old New York Proverb
Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. ~Fran Lebowitz
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep
Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. ~Confucius
Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ~Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, "Food for Thought and Vice Versa"
I eat merely to put food out of my mind. ~N.F. Simpson
I take a vitamin every day. It's called a steak. ~Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, Kicking & Screaming, 2005, spoken by the character Buck Weston
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. ~A. Kerr
This is every cook's opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
~Jonathan Swift
Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown
Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. ~Clementine Paddleford
A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines. ~Martin H. Fischer
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ~Alfred E. Newman
If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
~Linda Henley
Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body. ~B.W. Richardson
An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. ~Edward Bunyard
If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards
Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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
You can do a lot for your diet by eliminating foods that have mascots. ~Ted Spiker
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. ~Edward Abbey
The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer
Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables. ~B.W. Richardson
Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera? ~Attributed to Stephen Colbert
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ~James Beard
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. ~J.B. Priestly
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ~Charles Kuralt
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ~Cervantes
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Revolutionist's Handbook," Man and Superman
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. ~Henry David Thoreau
Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. ~Woody Allen
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. ~Lee Iacocca
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat. ~Author Unknown
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson
Kissing don't last; cookery do! ~George Meredith
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain
Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes? ~Chang Chan-Pao
Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out. ~Mark Hyman
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~Fred Allen
Quotations about Food 2
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire
There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. ~Author Unknown
We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking. ~Steve Elbert
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? ~Annita Manning
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn. ~Garrison Keillor
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. ~Author Unknown
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning. ~John Barrymore
Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. ~Elizabeth Berry
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ~Channing Pollock
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. ~Author Unknown
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. ~Robert Fuoss
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ~Buddy Hackett
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ~Ambrose Bierce
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy
The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis. ~Beatrice & Ira Freeman
You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. ~Earl Wilson
The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
My favorite animal is steak. ~Fran Lebowitz
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. ~William Osler
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ~Diogenes the Cynic
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ~Fran Lebowitz
A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. ~George Rosenbaum
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. ~Henry IV of France
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ~Lewis Grizzard
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. ~José Simons
I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians. ~Pat McNelis
Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas. ~Roseanne, "Don't Make Me Over," May 1992, spoken by character Dan Conner
A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~Old New York Proverb
Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. ~Fran Lebowitz
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep
Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. ~Confucius
Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ~Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, "Food for Thought and Vice Versa"
I eat merely to put food out of my mind. ~N.F. Simpson
I take a vitamin every day. It's called a steak. ~Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, Kicking & Screaming, 2005, spoken by the character Buck Weston
Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. ~A. Kerr
This is every cook's opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
~Jonathan Swift
Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown
Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. ~Clementine Paddleford
A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines. ~Martin H. Fischer
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ~Alfred E. Newman
If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
~Linda Henley
Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body. ~B.W. Richardson
An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. ~Edward Bunyard
If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards
Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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
You can do a lot for your diet by eliminating foods that have mascots. ~Ted Spiker
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. ~Edward Abbey
The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer
Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables. ~B.W. Richardson
Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera? ~Attributed to Stephen Colbert
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ~James Beard
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. ~J.B. Priestly
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ~Charles Kuralt
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ~Cervantes
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Revolutionist's Handbook," Man and Superman
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. ~Henry David Thoreau
Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. ~Woody Allen
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. ~Lee Iacocca
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat. ~Author Unknown
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson
Kissing don't last; cookery do! ~George Meredith
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain
Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes? ~Chang Chan-Pao
Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out. ~Mark Hyman
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~Fred Allen
Quotations about Food 2
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