Our Favorite Food Quotes
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some fries.’ The girl at the counter said, ‘Would you like some fries with that?’ There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. I’m at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. The perfect lover is one who turns into pizza at 4 A.M. Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had my breakfast in bed. The belly rules the mind. I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food. Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. |
