“Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
“You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.”
“There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.”
“The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.”
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.”
“A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.”
“We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.”
“The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.”
“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.”
“Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.”
“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.”
“I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.”
“The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.”
“There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.”
“I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.”
“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.”
“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
“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.”
“He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.”
“Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.”
“I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.”
“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.”
“You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”
“Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.”
“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.”
“Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.”