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Thoughts on Food

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
— George Bernard Shaw

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
— James Beard

“Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you who you are.”
— Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.”
— Pierre August Renoir

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
— Doug Larson

“Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.”
— Clifton Fadiman

“Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.”
— Norman Kolpas

“Hunger:  One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution.”
— Irwin Van Grove

“All sorrows are less with bread.”
— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
— Lin Yutang

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
— Voltaire

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”
— Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, My Own Story

“Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life.  But I go marching on.”
— George Bernard Shaw

“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.”
— Alfred E. Newman

“If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.”
— Sally Edwards

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
— Mark Twain

“The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.”
— St. Frances de Sales

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
— Aldous Huxley

“The story of barbecue is the story of America:  Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them.”
— Vince Staten

“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

“I don't like gourmet cooking or this cooking or that cooking. I like good cooking.”
— James Beard

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”
— Anthony Trollope

“Man is what he eats.”
— Ludwig Feuerbach

“The first and most important point to remember is that eating should be a pleasure — do not eat purely for health, you won't live much longer, but it will feel like an eternity.”
— Mark Porter

“Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.”
— Lin Yutang

“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.”
— Elsa Schiaparelli

“There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.”
— Craig Claiborne

“Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.”
— Delia Smith

“Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.”
— Josh Billings

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
— Virginia Woolf

“A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body. From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence.”
— Frederick W. Hackwood, Good Cheer

“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention.”
— Christopher Morley

“Food can look beautiful, taste exquisite, smell wonderful, make people feel good, bring them together, inspire romantic feelings... At its most basic, it is fuel for a hungry machine.”
— Rosamond Richardson

“If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.”
— Lin Yutang

“Food is, delightfully, an area of licensed sensuality, of physical delight which will, with luck and enduring taste buds, last our life long.”
— Antonia Till

“Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.”
— Charlie Trotter

“Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.”
— James Thurber

“My tongue is smiling."
— Abigail Trillin

“Laughter is brightest where food is best.”
— Irish Proverb

“The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.”
— Confucius

“Hunger is the best sauce in the world.”
— Cervantes

“We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink...”
— Epicurus

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
— Aesop

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
— Socrates

“The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.”
— Chinese Proverb

“After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile.”
— English Saying

“An empty belly is the best cook.”
— Estonian Proverb

“Worries go down better with soup.”
— Jewish Proverb

“The belly rules the mind.”
— Spanish Proverb