Eating Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

134 Eating Quotes
“Better halfe a loafe than no bread.”
William Camden Quotes
Source: Remaines--Proverbs (p. 293)
“A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!”
Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson) Quotes
Source: Through the Looking Glass, The Walrus and the Carpenter
“All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 13)
“The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 47)
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXIV)
“Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis absumpseris.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: De Amicitia (19, 67)
“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium (IV, 7)
“For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Source: Kubla Khan
“Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius! Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, Or titillate the palate of Silenus!”
William Augustus Croffut Quotes
Source: Clam Soup
“A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.”
Charles Dickens Quotes
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXXVII)
“The true Amphitryon.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Amphitryon (act IV, sc. 1)
“When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"”
Eugene Field Quotes
Source: The Bottle and the Bird
“When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.”
Henry Fielding Quotes
Source: Grub Street Opera (act III, sc. 2), "The Roast Beef of Old England"
“Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Source: Poor Richard
“What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.”
John Gay Quotes
Source: Trivia (bk. III, l. 199)
“Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: The Traveller (l. 17)
“"Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The New Adam and Eve
“Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes
Source: Commentaries (Psalm CIV)
“He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes
Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
“I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes
Source: Commentaries (Psalm XXXI)
“He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Church Porch (st. 2)
“A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Jacula Prudentum
“Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Jacula Prudentum
“'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.”
Robert Herrick Quotes
Source: Content not Cates
“Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.”
Robert Herrick Quotes
Source: Ode for Ben Jonson