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He who eats alone chokes alone.
-Arabic Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.
-English Proverb
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Hunger is the best sauce.
-Italian Proverb
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Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
-Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
-Proverb
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He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.
-Proverb
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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.
-Proverb
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Much meat, much disease.
-Proverb
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Hunger is a good cook.
-Proverb
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Gluttony kills more than the sword.
-Proverb
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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.
-Woody Allen
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We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
-Jeff Arder
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The first law of dietetics seems to be if it tastes good, its bad for you.
-Isaac Asimov
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Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.
-Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson]
Adventures in Contentment, 1907
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I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
-John Barrymore
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Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
-Luigi Barzini
O America, 1977
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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
-Luigi Barzini
The Italians, 1964
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Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
-Jean Baudrillard
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A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.
-James Beard
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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
-Walter Benjamin
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Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.
-Yogi Berra
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Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.
-Bible
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Books about Food
