Food Quotes

"I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak."

"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth."

"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

"For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy."

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"A drink a day keeps the shrink away."

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

"For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water."

"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."

"The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow."

"Why can't I just eat my waffle?"

"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting."

"Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations."

"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."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

"A hungry man is not a free man."

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