Eating Quotes II

EATING QUOTES II

quotations about eating

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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You are what you eat.

ANONYMOUS

beef advertisement, Bridgeport Telegraph, 1923

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There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that, my friend, is dining.

YUAN MEI

attributed, The Soup Book

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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.

HORACE

Satires

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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN

Physiologie du Gout

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A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.

GEORGE HERBERT

Jacula Prudentum

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Eat like teeth are out of style.

ELVIS PRESLEY

"Ito Eats"

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Eating is a primal mark and act of life that evokes the cosmos as a great cosmic banquet.

ANGEL F. MENDEZ-MONTOYA

The Theology of Food

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When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.

GENEEN ROTH

Women

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Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,
Still on their dinner turn--
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.

JOANNA BAILLIE

Count Basil

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Eating is a graceful process. Look at a formal sitdown dinner, and the number of cutlery used is astounding. There are main plates, quarter plates, soup bowls, dessert bowls, salad bowls, wine glasses, water glasses, and I'm not even going to start with spoons, knives, and forks. However, we've completely thrown all of it out of the window. And fast food is ensuring that this lovely tradition becomes extinct.

NISHI GROVER

Lose a Kilo a Week

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First come, first served.

HENRY BRINKLOW

Complaint of Roderyck Mors

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Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

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To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

attributed, The First Time I Heard Anthea Speak

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We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope,--what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,--what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

OWEN MEREDITH

Lucile

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Eat or be eaten.

HORACE HAYMAN WILSON

A Dictionary, Sanscrit and English

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The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

interview, Rappler

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All human history attests
That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!--
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.