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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
-Euripides
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A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
-Clifton Fadiman
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Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.
-Edna Ferber
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I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
-Totie Fields
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
-M. F. K. Fisher
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When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and it is all one.
-M. F. K. Fisher
from her 1943 book The Gastronomical Me quoted in Time, May 16, 1983, When asked why she wrote about eating and drinking
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
-M. F. K. Fisher
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The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.
-Redd Foxx
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It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.
-St. Francis De Sales
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
-Benjamin Franklin
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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Te Story of My Experiments with truth - An Autobiography; p. 228
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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
-W. S. Gilbert
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There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
-Paul Goodman
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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
-Phillip H. Haberman Jr.
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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
-Buddy Hackett
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A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.
-Hitopadesa
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
-Thomas Hobbes
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Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
-Edward W. Howe
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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
-Kin Hubbard
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We seldom report of having eaten too little.
-Thomas Jefferson
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
-Samuel Johnson
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Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
-Samuel Johnson
Boswell: Life of Johnson
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Books about Food
