Quotes, Aphorisms, Laws, and Thoughts

Food

A good hot dog feeds the hand that bites it.
Anonymous

A gourmet who counts calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
James Beard (1903-1985)

A meal without wine is called a commuter's breakfast.
Anonymous

A sandwich is an unsuccessful attempt to make both ends meat.
Anonymous

A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.
P.J. O'Rourke (1947- )

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Anonymous

Be a safe eater and always use a condiment.
Anonymous

Cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny.
Anonymous

Cooking is a minor art; I can't imagine a hilarious soufflé, or a deeply moving stew.
Anonymous

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Sophia Loren (1934- )

Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Anonymous

Grub first, then ethics.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Health food is anything you eat before the expiry date.
Anonymous

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Anonymous

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
N.F. Simpson (1919- )

I'm a man more dined against than dining.
Maurice Bowra (1898-1971)

I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it.
Anonymous

If I had some eggs I'd have some eggs and ham, if I had some ham.
Jason Henderson (1969- )

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
Anonymous

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
Francesco Caracciolo (1752-1799)

Never eat anything bigger than your head.
Anonymous

Never serve oysters during a month that has no paycheck in it.
P.J. O'Rourke (1947- )

Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
P.J. O'Rourke (1947- )

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made.
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Square meals often make round people.
E. Joseph Cossman (1918-2002)

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
Anonymous

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it's apt to give a person wind and self-righteousness.
Robert Hutchison (1871-1960)

We didn't fight our way to the top of the food chain just to be vegetarians.
Anonymous

We live in an age where pizza gets to your home before the police.
Anonymous

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

You are where you eat.
Anonymous