Food for Thought
An archive of quotes from the right hand navigation bar.
Thanks KTK for these two:
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. (Pavarotti)
Too few people understand a really good sandwich. (James Beard)
I love you like a fat kid loves cake… (50 cent)
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks out-sell sex books three to one. (L. M. Boyd)
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. (JRR Tolkien)
Fervet olla, vivit amicitia. While the pot boils, friendship endures. (Latin Proverb)
Orchards and cornfields ring with the hum of labour; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit which bow their branches to the ground; and the corn, piled in graceful sheaves, or waving in every light breath that sweeps above it, as if it wooed the sickle, tinges the landscape with a golden hue. (Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers)
Absence Absinthe makes the heart tart grow fonder. (unknown)
… man does not live on bread alone but on peanut butter and jelly that comes from the Lord. (Deuteronomy 8:3)
Aragorn: Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall.
Pippin: What about breakfast?
Aragorn: You’ve already had it.
Pippin: We’ve had one, yes. What about second breakfast?
(Aragorn turns and walks off in disgust)
Merry: I don’t think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin: What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn’t he?
Merry: I wouldn’t count on it.
(The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt! (Charles Schulz)
Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get. (Forrest Gump)
But if life is like a box of chocolates, then its time for me to buy another box, I seemed to have already devoured all the good ones! (Unknown)
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here’s yet in the word ‘hereafter’ the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips. (William Shakespeare)
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)
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. (Jim Davis)
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. (Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
