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Quotations
 | Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 10 likes |
 | Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 10 likes |
 | A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 7 likes |
 | How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 6 likes |
| To eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 6 likes |
 | To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | Grub first, then ethics. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 6 likes |
 | In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes |
| People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 5 likes |
 | An army marches on its stomach. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 5 likes |
| It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 4 likes |
 | The English have only one sauce, melted butter. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 4 likes |
 | They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 4 likes |
 | Wine is the spiritual part of a meal. Meat and vegetables are just the material part. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 4 likes |
 | Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 4 likes |
| Walking is man’s best medicine. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 4 likes |
 | This world is a great banquet where nature invites all living beings, provided that the guests eat each other. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 3 likes |
 | There is no love sincerer than the love of food. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz. — Humphrey Bogart, 1899-1957, American actor 3 likes |
| He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | Poor men seek meat for their Stomach ; rich Men Stomach for their Meat. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 2 likes |
 | Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. — George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet 1 likes |
 | I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated. |
 | There are only three gems on earth: water, food and sweet speech. They are fools who dig out stones and call them gems. |
 | Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming. |
 | More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | My idea of heaven is, eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. |
 | You are what you eat, but eventually you become what eats you. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| There's only one secret to bachelor cooking — not caring how it tastes. |
 | Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. |
 | Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. |
Latin Quotes
 | What nourishes me, destroys me. Quod me nutrit me destruit. — Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593, English playwright (meaning: that which drives a person can consume him from within) 60 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | I believe that the primary justice is the fair distribution of bread. — Yannis Ritsos, 1909-1990, Greek poet 6 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?” This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians! — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 14 likes |
 | You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 6 likes |
| The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to cook. — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 5 likes |
 | I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast at any time”. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. — Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian 3 likes |
 | I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.' — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 3 likes |
 | Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 2 likes |
 | My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. |
| Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. |
Ancient Greek
 | Others live to eat, myself I eat to live. Οι μεν λοιποί ζώσιν ίνα εσθιώσιν, αυτός δε εσθίω ίνα ζω. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 13 likes |
 | Plants exist for the sake of animals and animals for the sake of men. Τα φυτά των ζώων ένεκέν εστι και τα ζώα των ανθρώπων χάριν. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can. Ει μεν πλούσιος, όταν θέλη· ει δε πένης, όταν έχη. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher (his idea for the proper time for lunch) 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. 5 likes |
 | The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. 4 likes |
 | Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | My conscience wants vegetarianism to win over the world. And my subconscious is yearning for a piece of juicy meat. But what do I want? — from the film Stalker (1979) 4 likes |
 | A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. — from the film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 3 likes |
