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Quotations by Subject: Food
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It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.: Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.: Alice May Brock
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
Health food makes me sick.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.: Cyra McFadden
He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]: Eike von Repkow (~1220), Sachsenspiegel
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
My favorite animal is steak.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Good food ends with good talk.: Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 1
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.: George Dennison Prentice
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.: James Beard
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?': Jay Leno (1950 - )
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.: Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.: Kelly Barton
A dinner lubricates business.: Lord William Stowell
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
Man is what he eats.: Ludwig Feuerbach
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.: M. F. K. Fisher
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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