Food Quotes - Page 61

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

How do they taste? They taste like more.

Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Great food is similar to great sex. Extra you have greater you want.

Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

The appetite grows with eating.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.