“Unquiet meals make ill digestions.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
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“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”
“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”
“Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."”
“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.”
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”
“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”
Source: Shocking Life
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
Source: The Hobbit
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
“The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.”
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Source: In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating
“You are what what you eat eats.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Source: Kitchen Confidential
Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches
Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron
“Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.”
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”
Source: Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends
Source: Diet for a Small Planet
“Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.”
“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.”
“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!”