Quotations and Poems

» “I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead.”
– Woody Allen

»  ”We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.”
– Jeff Arder

»  ”I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.”
– John Barrymore

»  ”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

»  ”A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.”
– James Beard

»  ”Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
– Ludwig Van Beethoven

»  ”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

»  ”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

»  ”Man shall not live by bread alone.”
– Bible

»  ”Put a knife to thy throat, if you’re a man given to appetite.”
– Bible

»  ”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.”
– Ambrose Bierce

»  ”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

»  ”Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.”
– Bill Bryson

»  ”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.”
– Burton

»  ”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.”
– George Bush

»  ”Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.”
– Samuel Butler

»  ”The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.”
– Samuel Butler

»  ”A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
– Lord Byron

»  ”The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.”
– Barbara Cartland

»  ”It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.”
– Cato The Elder

»  ”For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.”
– Charles II

»  ”Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

»  ”The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.”
– William Collier

»  ”The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.”
– Cyril Connolly

»  ”It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.”
– Alistair Cooke

»  ”To eat is human, to digest divine.”
– Charles T. Copeland

»  ”Square meals often make round people.”
– E. Joseph Cossman

»  ”I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

»  ”Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese… get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
– Barbara Ehrenreich

»  ”I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”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

»  ”When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
– Euripides

»  ”Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.”
– Cliff Fadiman

»  ”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