Thursday

Time for some food quotes

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)
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy
I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981
There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

Sefer Hasidim
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser, 1524
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Totie Fields
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
He hath eaten me out of house and home.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1

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