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. -Mark Twain
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. -Unknown Author
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled. -Jonathan Swift
A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. -Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. -Adelle Davis
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. -Edward Abbey
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. -Adelle Davis
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. -George Bernard Shaw
