Food Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 11



Always eat grapes downward – that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot.
Samuel Butler

‘Oh, my Friends, be warned by me,
That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch and Tea
Are all the Human Frame requires…’
With that the Wretched Child expires.
Hilaire Belloc

The Chief Defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of String.
Hilaire Belloc

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.
Anonymous

It’s a very odd thing -
As odd as can be -
That whatever Miss T eats
Turns into Miss T.
Walter de la Mare

He hath eaten me out of house and home.
William Shakespeare

This piece of cod passes all understanding.
Edwin Lutyens

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields

I always eat peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life,
They do taste kind of funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.
Anonymous

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright

I think I could eat one of Bellamy’s veal pies.
William Pitt the Younger

All I ask of food is that it doesn’t harm me.
Michael Palin

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.
George Carlin

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
Norman Douglas

I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen.
John Webster

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.
Frederic Raphael

Carnation milk is the best in the land;
Here I sit with a can in my hand -
No tits to pull, no hay to pitch,
You just punch a hole in the son of a bitch.
Anonymous

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Bible: Exodus

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain

All I’m saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.
Prince Charles

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