Quotations about

Food

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

—Charles Kuralt

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

—Orson Welles

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men know what I mean.

—Lin-Chi

Be nice. Funny. Smart. Generous. Kind. Feed your body with good food. Your soul with good friends. And your mind with new things.

—Jillian Dodd in Love Me

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

—G. K. Chesterton

If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.

—Maria Augusta Trapp

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

—Erica Jong

Man does not live by bread alone.

—Moses

Man does not live by bread alone, but he also does not live long without it.

—Frederick Buechner

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

—Eric Sevareid

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

—Shalom Aleichem

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

—Edward Abbey

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

—Jane Caminos

If you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.

—J. P. Donleavy