Engraving Quotes About Food, Drink, Coffee and Chocolate
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Delicious Quotations About Food, Drink, Eating & Nutrition"If this is coffee, please bring mesome tea; if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." -- Abraham Lincoln "In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport." -- Julia Child "Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm." -- Dutch Saying "Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love." -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand "Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister." -- Bob Irwin "Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat." -- Johann Sebastian Bach "Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces." -- Judith Viorst "Food is our common ground, a universal experience." -- James A. Beard "I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate." -- Julia Child "A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch." -- James A. Beard "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." -- Harriet van Horne "A chocolate in the mouth is worth two on the plate." -- Anonymous "There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE." -- Linda Grayson "Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!" -- Anonymous "All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! -- Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)" "Chocolate is good for three things. Two of 'em cannot be mentioned on public television." -- Anonymous "Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food." -- Michael Levine "I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process.... It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?" -- Anonymous "Stress wouldn 19t be so hard to take if it were chocolate covered." -- Anonymous "Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can." -- Anonymous "I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter." -- Anonymous "Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos." -- Don Kardong "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. -- Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques" "Tea should be taken in solitude." -- C.S. Lewis "Tea is liquid wisdom." -- Anonymous "Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn." -- Garrison Keillor "Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie." -- Jim David "Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." -- Voltaire "We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking." -- Steve Elbert "Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?" -- Author Unknown "I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning." -- John Barrymore "Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, thats bad for you!" -- Tommy Smothers "No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut." -- Channing Pollock "It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat." -- Robert Fuoss "As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it." -- Buddy Hackett "Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray." -- Author Unknown "After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps." -- Miss Piggy "The belly rules the mind." -- Spanish Proverb "Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm." -- Dutch Proverb "My favorite animal is steak." -- Fran Lebowitz "When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste." -- Laiko Bahrs "We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy." -- William Osler "The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -- G.K. Chesterton "All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast." -- John Gunther "Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first." -- Josh Billings "A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed." -- George Rosenbaum "The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with." -- Drew Sirtors "No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils." -- Henry Ward Beecher "Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation." -- Author Unknown "Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend." -- Author Unknown "Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great." -- Henry IV of France "Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography." -- Robert Byrne "Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven." -- Jessi Lane Adams "It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." -- Lewis Grizzard "I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians." -- Pat McNelis "Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas." -- Dan Conner, Roseanne "A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat." -- Old New York Saying "If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?" -- Ymber Delecto "Eat little, sleep sound." -- Iranian Proverb "Worries go down better with soup." -- Jewish Proverb "The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live." -- Confucius "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 "Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation." -- Clementine Paddleford "A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines." -- Martin H. Fischer "We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons." -- Alfred E. Newman "An empty belly is the best cook." -- Estonian Proverb "If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers." -- Linda Henley "It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption." -- Edward Bunyard "If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food." -- Sally Edwards "Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes." -- Alexander Pope "I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee." -- Harry Mahtar "If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture." -- Audrey Foris "Rice is born in water and must die in wine." -- Italian Proverb "There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will." -- Robert Frost "What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?" -- Lin Yutang "Hunger is the best sauce in the world." -- Cervantes "There is no love sincerer than the love of food." -- George Bernard Shaw "I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon." -- Ronald Reagan "I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead." -- Woody Allen "Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." -- Mark Twain "Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans." -- Fred Allen "I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee." -- Carly Simon "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." -- T.S. Eliot "Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible." -- H.L. Mencken "You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit." -- Franklin P. Jones "Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal." -- Jay Leno "In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires." -- Benjamin Franklin "Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat." -- Jim Davis "The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again." -- George Miller "When I'm at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there's a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who's struggling mightily with a fork." -- Rick Budinich "Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine." -- Polish Proverb "Life itself is the proper binge." -- Julia Child "Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie." -- Jim Davis "I eat merely to put food out of my mind." -- N.F. Simpson "If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture." -- Terri Guillemets "The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation." -- Martin H. Fischer "You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars." -- Charles Kuralt "He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise." -- Henry David Thoreau "We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow." -- Lee Iacocca "The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook." -- Julia Child "Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!" -- James Beard "The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell." -- Martin H. Fischer "We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink..." -- Epicurus "After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile." -- English Saying "Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens." -- Sepal Felicivant "Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook." -- Ambrose Bierce |



























