Quotes about food
51 quotes from 41 people
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates470–399 BCPlutarch Moralia, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin1755–1826Physiologie du Goût (1825), Vol. 1, Aphorisms, no. 4 (tr. L. F. Simpson, 1864)
Mark Twain1835–1910Mark Twain’s Autobiography (1924), Vol. II, p. 98
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s AlmanackI’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.
A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities.
Euripides481–407 BCCyclops, ll. 334–335 (ed. B. E. Stevenson, 1948)
