Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?

...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food were free, why work?

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the turkey; and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner.

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.

If you are what you eat then feed me dope.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.

I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

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.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.