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- It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.
- Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006
- Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
- Alice May Brock
- Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
- Health food makes me sick.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
- Cyra McFadden
- He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]
- Eike von Repkow (~1220), Sachsenspiegel
- Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.
- Fernand Point
- Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- My favorite animal is steak.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Good food ends with good talk.
- Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
- There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 1
- What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- George Dennison Prentice
- It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
- Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
- James Beard
- I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
- Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
- Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.
- Kelly Barton
- A dinner lubricates business.
- Lord William Stowell
- What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
- Man is what he eats.
- Ludwig Feuerbach
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