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"In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure
because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain -- hunger.
Mark Kurlansky, 'Choice Cuts' (2002)
"One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating.
And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are
eating with friends."
Laurie Colwin 'Home Cooking'
"The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning, or exquisite flavor,
but in yourself."
Horace (65-8 B.C.) Roman lyric poet.
"Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after
gulp without breathing space."
Maimonides (1135-1204)
"To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it -- this is
as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved
and destroyed."
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
"In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink, and the
rest left empty."
The Talmud
"Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they
eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it,
that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
James Boswell's 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'.
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out
inside."
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910).
"Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their
bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but
they are not men of taste."
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin (1804-1869) French historian.
"Eating should be done in silence, lest the windpipe open before the gullet, and life be
in danger."
The Talmud.
"Animals feed; man eats; only a man of wit knows how to eat."
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 'The Physiology of Taste' (1825)
"Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are."
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
'The Physiology of Taste' (1825)
"There is some s--t I won't eat -- unless they pay me to eat it on TV in Prime Time."
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"Bad dinners go hand in hand with total depravity, while a man properly fed is already
half-saved."
anonymous
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else."
Samuel Johnson, English author (1709-1784)
'The Affluent Society'
"If we are what we eat, with all the genetically modified and imitation foods we now
eat, what the heck are we?"
anonymous
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because
the meat is savory and the appetite is keen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and
contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance
to the morale."
Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian designer (1890-1973)
"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."
Luciano Pavarotti, 'My Own Story'
"It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all."
Catalan Proverb
"When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out."
Tommy Lasorda (Dodgers baseball team manager)
"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of
eating."
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
"One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours, is work.
You can't eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight
hours."
William Faulkner (1897-1962) American writer.
"Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours
chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady
eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough."
M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) 'Serve It Forth' (1937)
"Eating does not consist in putting cold, greasy animal food into one's mouth. Eating
consists of putting into the mouth - chewing, enjoying the flavour, and swallowing, of
course - warm, juicy, thinnish or thickish, fat or lean, morsels of properly prepared food
precisely at the nick of time."
Frederick W. Hackwood, 'Good Cheer' (1911)
"If there were no such thing as eating, we would have to invent it to save man from
despairing."
Dr. Wilhelm Stekhel, 'The Depths of the Soul'
"You know I love to talk about food I'm going to eat while I'm already eating."
Grace, on the TV show Will & Grace.
Apple
Anyone can count the number of seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
(Robert H. Schuller)
Different men have different opinions; some prefer apples, some onions.
One of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple.
The night may be dark, but the apples have been counted.
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. (Alice Meynell)
Who has tasted a sour apple, will have the more relish for a sweet one.
You can count the apples on a tree but you can't count the trees from one apple.
Poor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye. (Sir Walter Scott, in Old Mortality, 1816)
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he
kept him as the apple of his eye. (Bible, Deuteronomy 32:10, King James Version)
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he
that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. (Bible, Zechariah 2:8)
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye (Shakespeare, in A Midsummer
Night's Dream, 1590)
A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath. (Shakespeare)
An apple cleft in two is not more twin than these two creatures (Shakespeare)
Kent, sireverybody knows Kentapples, cherries, hops, and women. (Charles Dickens)
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one
apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
ideas. (George Bernard Shaw)
Apricot
If an ox doesn't know the size of his arse he won't eat an apricot stone.
Banana
An old banana leaf was once young and green.
Dogs don't like bananas, but can't bear to think chickens eat them.
Every fresh banana leaf should eventually become a dry banana leaf.
Lower your head modestly while passing and you will harvest bananas.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. (Groucho Marx)
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana, he says it is not sweet.
Blueberry
Other land blueberry; own land strawberry.
Breadfruit
Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first.
Cherry
A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.
He who eats cherries with gentlemen risks getting the pips in his nose.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
You need plant only one cherry and one plum tree.
If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones.
People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever. (Andy Taylor)
About the woodlands I will go, to see the cherry hung with snow. (A.E. Housman)
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits? (Erma Bombeck)
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a
cherry. (Halle Berry)
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. (Pablo Neruda)
Kent, sireverybody knows Kentapples, cherries, hops, and women. (Charles Dickens)
Coconut
A coconut shell full of water is a sea to an ant.
He who plants a coconut tree plants vessels and clothing, food and drink, a habitation for himself and a
heritage for his children.
He who selects coconut with great care ends up getting a bad coconut.
It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink.
Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.
Coffee
A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.
Coffee from the top of the cup and chocolate from the bottom.
Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life.
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black,
thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.
Everybody needs something to believe. I believe I'll have another cup of coffee!
This is coffee of yesterday. If you want coffee of today, please come back tomorrow.
Too much coffee is bad for my health. I don't know if it will kill me, but if it does I hope to come back as a coffee
pot.
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. (by: Alphonse Allais)
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. (by:
Alex Levine)
Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love. (by: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand)
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind
people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. (by: Dave Barry)
Date
Better a handful of dry dates and content therewith than to own the gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye
by a broody camel.
Mock the palm tree only when the date harvest is over.
Durian
Encountering a fallen Durian. (= good luck)
Like a cucumber versus a durian. (This refers to the struggle between the weak and the strong. The strong (i.e.
the durian) will always win.).
Fig
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, And he who cares for his master will be honored. (New American
Standard Bible, Proverbs 27:18)
If you have figs in your knapsack, everyone will want to be your friend.
Fruit
A fruit tree that grows in a dung heap will certainly blossom.
A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy. (Albert Einstein)
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. (John Stuart Mill)
And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised. (Francois de Malherbe)
Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat. (Jim Davis)
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
Elm trees have beautiful branches but hardly ever bear fruit.
Fast ripe, fast rotten
Fruits of the same tree have different tastes; children of the same mother have various qualities.
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.
He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller)
He who would enjoy the fruit must not spoil the blossoms.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln)
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. (Mary Cassatt)
In a tree that you can't climb, there are always a thousand fruits.
It is only the fruit-laden tree that receives the shower of stones from passersby.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. (Kahlil Gibran)
Looking at a tree see its fruit; looking at a man see his deeds.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. (Mother Teresa)
Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit.
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul. (Henry David Thoreau)
Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet.
Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.
Ripe fruit falls by itself, but it does not fall into your mouth.
The branch bearing the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground.
The children eat the fruit and the father sleeps on the peel.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls. (Bible: Proverbs 11:30)
The hanging fruit is never too heavy for the creeper to bear.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Moliere)
The trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit.\
They will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes (Bible: Proverbs 1:31)
Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. (Groucho Marx)
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. (Charles Hare)
When you're green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot. (Ray Kroc)
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. (Aristotle)
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Gooseberry
The words of elders are like the gooseberry: bitter at first, then sweet.
Grape
A grape that sees another gets ripe.
Except the vine, there is no plant which bears a fruit of as great importance as the olive. (Pliny)
One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
Some men will build a wine cellar when they have found just one grape.
The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it
had nothing else in the universe to do. (Galileo)
When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe.
Jackfruit
Whoever eats the jackfruit, will be touched by the sap.
The world has always been like this: one man feasts on the jackfruit and the other gets stuck in the sap.
Jujube
I have tied my goat to a jujube tree.
The good men seem to be like coconuts. Others are like the jujube fruit. (Beautiful only on the outside but sour
inside).
Kiwifruit
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
(Erma Bombeck)
I don't go for the nouvelle approach-serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit. (Jeff
Smith)
Lemon
Fifty lemons are a load for one person, but for fifty persons they are perfume.
Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.
When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?" (Henry Rollins)
Lime
An orange never bears a lime.
Lychee
Beneath these green mountains where spring rules the year, the irbarbutus and loquat in season appear, and
feasting on lychee, 300 a day, I shouldn't mind staying eternally here. (Su Shih, Chinese poet)
Mango
An ant guarding a mango.
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its
smell.
If you don't eat mangos that fall on the ground, be sure to be strong enough to pick ones on the tree.
Mangosteen
Mangosteen is the Queen of Fruits.
Melon
A melon forced off its vine is not sweet.
Avoid suspicion: when walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't tie your shoe.
If you plant melons, you get melons; if you plant beans, you get beans.
Marriage is a little bit like buying melons, you need a little luck.
No melon peddler cries, "Bitter melons." No wine dealer says, "Sour wine.
One gives a melon, the other gets the stomach cramps.
Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.
Nut
Are you nuts?
Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat. (Jim Davis)
Olive
Don't call me a little olive until you've picked me.
In the olive grove, a wise man at the feet and a wild man at the head.
The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. (Bible,
Psalms 52:8)
England and the English. As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as
garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unlivable to them unless they have tea and puddings. (George Orwell)
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. (Bible)
Except the vine, there is no plant which bears a fruit of as great importance as the olive. (Pliny)
Orange
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. (Benny Green)
Pear
A pear tree cannot bear an apple.
A ripe pear is more likely to fall in the shit than onto the clean ground.
Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the
theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct
experience. (Mao Tse-Tung)
The wild pear has blossomed: the kid goat no longer suffers.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Pineapple
Once you taste a pineapple, you'll never go for any other fruit.
You need plant only one cherry and one plum tree.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
(Logan Pearsall Smith)
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
(Anthony Trollope)
Pomegranate
In every pomegranate a decayed pip is to be found.
You can find no pomegranates on a willow tree, nor shame in the wicked.
Prune
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. (N. D. Stice)
Pumpkin
The pumpkin vine never bears watermelons.
Strawberry
A strange land is a bilberry; one's own land is a strawberry.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in
Israel. (Golda Meir)
Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did. (William Butler)
Sugarapple
Teeth as sugar apple seeds.
(This proverb in Vietnam originates from an old fashion of Vietnamese ladies. In the 19th century and earlier,
fashionable ladies used to stain their teeth in black. The white teethed ladies were ordinary and not so
fashionable. So, "Teeth as sugarapple seeds" used to praise a pretty woman who had nice teeth.)
Tamarind
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree. (Edgar Allan Poe)
It was like a species of the Tamarind tree, bearing fruit which resembled grapes extremely fine; and its
fragrance extended to a considerable distance. I exclaimed, How beautiful is this tree, and how delightful is its
appearance! (Prophet Enoch about the tree of knowledge)
Watermelon
One armpit cannot hold two watermelons.