Subject: Food/Drink » Eating (Page 7)

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what’s for lunch.

(1915 – 1985) stage & film actor & director

It was actually easier for me to become a vegetarian – you know, quitting meat – because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of meat.

(1966 – ) American actor, musician & comedian

I’m a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.

(1925 – ) American professional football player

I don’t wanna die tomorrow knowing that I could have had a piece of chocolate cake tonight.

(1976 – ) American comedian

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Now don’t get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin’ ‘em more… fun to pet, better to chew.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

I'm a vegetarian… well I'm not hardcore because I eat meat, but only because I like the taste.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

Overeat: To dine.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist

If it tastes good, you can't have it; if it tastes awful, you'd better clean your plate.

Fiber: Edible wood-pulp said to aid digestion and prolong life, so that we might enjoy another six or eight years in which to consume wood-pulp.

Never eat prunes when you're hungry.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers… the original meal was never found.

(1959 – ) British/American actress, comedian, director, author & screenwriter

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

writer

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

(1903 – 1985) American chef & food writer

Fillit mig-non

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking.

(1919 – 2011) American news commentator & writer

To eat is human, to digest, divine.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

He goes through groceries like an earth remover.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)