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Eating & Food .

  1. Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. Socrates.
  2. I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. -Benjamin Franklin.
  3. We never repent of having eaten too little. - Thomas Jefferson .
  4. To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. - La Rochefoucauld .
  5. He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. - Chinese Proverb.
  6. The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. - Hippocrates.
  7. Man does not live by bread alone... - Matthew 4:4
  8. Eating while seated makes one of large size; eating while standing makes one strong. Hindu.
  9. After lunch rest a while, after dinner walk a mile. Hindu.
  10. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. -Socrates.

  11. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -Elsa Schiaparelli.

  12. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives. -Oscar Wilde.

  13. I hate people who are not serious about their meals. -Oscar Wilde.

  14. Eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. -Mark Twain.

  15. Food is an important part of a balanced diet. -Fran Lebowitz .

  16. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. -Anon.

  17. If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet. What happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? -Steven Wright .

  18. Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get. -Robert Orben.

  19. Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. -Lin Yutang.

  20. The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. -Steven Wright.

  21. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw.

  22. Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. -Enrico Caruso.

  23. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -Henny Youngman .

  24. When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate. -Raymond Blanc.

  25. Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. -Albert Einstein.
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