Food Quotes - Page 21

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat.

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.