577 Quotes About Eating

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

Foods are like men: some are good, some are bad, and some are okay only in small doses. But most should be tried at least once.

Those men ate like food had just been invented

Da roede mand ud, naar at Solen gik frem, Og før hun gik under, vel hundret og femDa saae man paa Gielden ophænget. Saa kaagte de Lever, naar Folket var svang,Saa straxen kom Kiedler og Møllie paa Gang,Mand troede de skulde sig sprænget.

Brillat-Savarin, said: ‘Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.’ He had it wrong. It’s not just what we eat that shows who we are, it’s what we buy but don’t eat that says more about the people we think we are. Or want to be. Look at the ingredients in your cupboards. All those hopes and dreams.

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity—that of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself—and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life!

To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.

Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.