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Image of E. W. Howe
Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
- E. W. Howe
Collection: Food
Image of Alfred Hitchcock
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Collection: Food
Image of O. Henry
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
- O. Henry
Collection: Food
Image of Daryl Hannah
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible
- Daryl Hannah
Collection: Food
Image of Jennifer Hudson
Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.
- Jennifer Hudson
Collection: Food
Image of Margaret Atwood
I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.
- Margaret Atwood
Collection: Food
Image of Linda Sunshine
A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.
- Linda Sunshine
Collection: Food
Image of Linda Sunshine
desserts are the most crucial part of any meal.
- Linda Sunshine
Collection: Food
Image of James Hillman
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
- James Hillman
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of James Joyce
The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.
- James Joyce
Collection: Food
Image of Mindy Kaling
Skinny foodie, get away from me.
- Mindy Kaling
Collection: Food
Image of Thomas Jefferson
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Food
Image of Washington Irving
Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.
- Washington Irving
Collection: Food
Image of St. Jerome
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
- St. Jerome
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
Hunger is never delicate.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of Thomas Keller
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.
- Thomas Keller
Collection: Food
Image of Henry James
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.
- Henry James
Collection: Food
Image of Henry James
Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
- Henry James
Collection: Food
Image of Victor Hugo
God made only water, but man made wine.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Food
Image of Henry James
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
- Henry James
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of John Keats
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.
- John Keats
Collection: Food
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Food
Image of Victor Hugo
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Food
Image of Juvenal
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
- Juvenal
Collection: Food
Image of St. Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- St. Jerome
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of Douglas Adams
Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Food
Image of Thomas Jefferson
On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Food
Image of Robert Johnson
The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.
- Robert Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of James Joyce
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
- James Joyce
Collection: Food
Image of David Hume
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.
- David Hume
Collection: Food
Image of Hubert H. Humphrey
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
Collection: Food
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Food
Image of Aldous Huxley
Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: Food
Image of William Ralph Inge
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
- William Ralph Inge
Collection: Food
Image of Douglas Adams
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Food
Image of Samuel Johnson
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Food
Image of Rudyard Kipling
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
- Rudyard Kipling
Collection: Food
Image of C. S. Lewis
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Food
Image of Tommy Lasorda
When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.
- Tommy Lasorda
Collection: Food
Image of Fran Lebowitz
Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Food
Image of Russell Baker
Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.
- Russell Baker
Collection: Food
Image of Fran Lebowitz
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Food