Famous Quotes about Food and Eating (110 Quotations)

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

Edible. 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.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

Gluttony kills more than the sword.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like — and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Hunger is a good cook.

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

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.