Eating Quotes

Most popular eating quotes

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. - Cervantes quote.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

drinking

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler quote.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

mankind man the animal

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. - Leigh Hunt quote.
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

conversation

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

food

I'm inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language.  We eat before we talk. - Margaret Atwood quote.
Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language.  We eat before we talk.
Margaret Atwood The CanLit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate—A Collection of Tasty Literary Fare
Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey. - Lord Byron quote.
Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.

mankind

It's a very odd thing—
As odd as can be—
That whatever Miss T eats
Turns into Miss T.
He didn't play with his food anymore till it got cold; instead, down it went like a fuel into a furnace keeping the ovens hot, and the energy at boiling point.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and the passive. - William Ralph Inge quote.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and the passive.
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Greater numbers dig their graves with their own teeth, and die more by those fatal instruments than the weapons of their enemies.

obesity

Eat slowly: only men in rags
And gluttons old in sin
Mistake themselves for carpet bags
and tumble victuals in.
The first freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat. - Eleanor Roosevelt quote.
The first freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.
To eat is to appropriate by destruction. - Jean-Paul Sartre quote.
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.