Quotes About Food - P2

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C. Scott

“You are what what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.”
― Meg Cabot, Big Boned

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”
― Roald Dahl

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely.
Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.”
― James Patterson

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
― A.A. Milne

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
― Mark Twain

“There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.”
― Judith Martin

Quotes About Food - P1

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

― Charles M. Schulz


“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien


“This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet


“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

― Scott Adams


“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own


“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

― Orson Welles


“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”

― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever


“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance


“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”

― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression


“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

― Mahatma Gandhi