Quotes about food from famous people. A hungry army is a terrible force
After have a nice lunch You can forgive anyone, even your relatives.
When in my life big trouble, I deny myself literally everything except delicious food and good drinks.
Oscar Wilde
Great people have always been abstinent in food.
Honore de Balzac
The best seasoning for food is hunger.
We do not live in order to eat, but we eat in order to live.
I eat to live, not live to eat.
Old people endure fasting very easily; in second place are adult people, more difficult are young people, and most difficult are children, and of these last - those who are distinguished by too much liveliness.
Hippocrates
Don't put off until dinner what you can eat at lunch.
Not having dinner is a holy law,
Who cares most light sleep.The stomach of an enlightened person has the best qualities kind heart- sensitivity and gratitude.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
No one should exceed the limit in food or nutrition.
If a gourmet constantly counts calories in his dishes, then he is like Casanova, not taking his eyes off his watch.
James Beard
A person lives not by what he eats, but by what he digests. This position applies equally to the mind as to the body.
If you want to prolong your life, shorten your meals.
Beer is another proof that the Lord loves us and wants us to be happy.
Since people learned to cook food, they eat twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
Better time undereating from time to time rather than constantly overeating.
Eating in abundance harms the body just as abundance of water harms crops.
If it were not for the power of the stomach, not a single bird would fall into the hunter’s snare, and the hunter himself would not set the snare.
Food that the body does not digest is eaten by the person who ate it. Therefore, eat in moderation.
Drunkenness is the mother of all vices.
Moderation is an ally of nature and a guardian of health. So when you drink, when you eat, when you move, and even when you love, practice moderation.
Abul Faraj
Our nutrients should be a remedy, and our medicinal products must be food substances.
The effects of dietary supplements are long-lasting, while the effects of medications are transient.
Hippocrates
Drinking wine is as harmful as taking poison.
Excess food interferes with the subtlety of the mind.
Between a good lunch and long life The only difference is that at dinner the sweets are served at the end.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love and hunger rule the world.
Friedrich Schiller
There is no love more sincere than the love of food.
Will we refuse food only on the grounds that, when we are full, we lose our appetite? Can we say that a field is wasted if it remains fallow?
George Bernard Shaw
Everyone eats what they eat.
Ludwig Feuerbach
Abstinence in eating is born either out of concern for health, or inability to eat much.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It seems to me that every husband prefers a good dish without music to one without good food.
Immanuel Kant
Belonging to some kind of lunch club, even a literary club, inevitably ruins an aspiring writer. This fatal mistake This was done by more than one talented young man who, on his own initiative or on the advice of foolish friends, tried to “crawl” into the society of celebrities - he saved his stomach, but lost his reputation.
Herbert George Wells
We need to eat and drink so much that our strength is restored and not suppressed.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
We do not live in order to eat, but in order not to know what to eat.
When you get up from the table hungry, you are full; if you get up after having eaten, you have overeaten; If you get up after overeating, you are poisoned.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
2. Since patience is my greatest virtue and perfection is my goal, I was well equipped to handle culinary tasks. Marlene Dietrich.
3.High culinary art is the only human ability about which nothing bad can be said. F. Durrenmatt
4. When you get up from the table hungry, you are full; if you get up after eating, you have overeaten; if you get up after overeating, you are poisoned. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
5. A well-fed cat will not think of rushing at the mouse, but a hungry mouse will think of rushing at the cat. Baurzhan Toyshibekov
6. A hungry army is a terrible force. Konstantin Kushner
7. In case of major troubles, I deny myself everything, except food and drink. Oscar Wilde
8. Dining etiquette was probably invented by people who did not know the feeling of hunger. Delphine de Girardin
9. The most serious political decisions are usually made in cozy, quiet restaurants. Joseph Lafayette
10. A rich man can always share his food with a poor man, and a poor man can always share his appetite with a rich man. Baurzhan Toyshibekov
11. If you have nothing to eat for breakfast, then at lunch be sure to pay a courtesy visit to a friend - he will share his daily bread, and during dinner visit your enemy - he will voluntarily give it to you. Stas Yankovsky
12. Tame your appetite to obey your reason willingly. Plutarch
13. Fill two quarters of the stomach with food, one with drink, and leave one for the wind. Chzhud-shi, ancient Tibetan treatise
14. If a gourmet constantly counts calories in his dishes, then he is like Casanova, not taking his eyes off his watch. James Beard
15. War is war, and lunch is on schedule. Friedrich Wilhelm I
16. Above all teachings and rules on how to live correctly,
I chose to affirm two foundations of dignity:
It's better to eat nothing at all than to eat just anything
It's better to be alone than to be friends with just anyone
Omar Khayyam
17. It seems to me that every husband prefers a good dish without music to music without a good dish. Emmanuel Kant
18. Love and hunger rule the world. F. Schiller
19. Do not eat food from an envious person and do not be tempted by his tasty dishes. Solomon
20. Since a person is eternally condemned to constantly eat, it means that he must eat well! Brillat-Savarin
21. Excess food interferes with the logic of the mind. Seneca
22. It is better to undereat from time to time than to constantly overeat. Abul Faraj
23. When I had money, I bought books, and when there was no money, I bought clothes and food. Erasmus of Rotterdam.
24. If you want to live happily ever after, reduce your lunch time. Benjamin Franklin
25. Don’t feed words instead of bread. Aristophanes
26. Japanese cuisine is the ideal food for a ballerina. Maya Plisetskaya
27. Food is as necessary for health as decent treatment is necessary for an educated person. Kozma Prutkov
28. Eat little at lunch, and even less at dinner, because the health of the whole body is forged in the forge of our stomach. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
29. It would do well for everyone to take a closer look at themselves while eating. Eliav Canetti
30. Food is not only a means of life for us, but also a means of death. Plutarch
31. Overeating leads to illness, as practice shows. Hippocrates
32. If, after eating your fill, you think about food, then even delicious dishes will not awaken your appetite. Hong Zichen
33. Cooking is a matter of time. In general, the more time, the better the result. . John Eskin
34. I'm not going to starve myself in order to live a little longer. Airan Peter
35. No matter what you say to a hungry person, he will only hear the rumbling of his empty stomach. . Baurzhan Toyshibekov
36. On the Continent you are treated to good dinners, in England you are treated to good dining manners. George Mikes
37. Complete nutrition does not require nutritional supplements. Konstantin Kushner
38. A person lives not by what he eats, but by what he digests. This applies equally to both the mind and the body. Benjamin Franklin
39. Just as eating food without pleasure turns into boring eating, so doing science without passion clogs the memory, which becomes unable to assimilate what it absorbs.
Leonardo da Vinci
40. To think, you have to eat - there’s no escape! Yes, but then, how many different thoughts can be produced by the same piece of bread!
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
41. Feed your guest all night before asking questions. Ernst Heine
42. We eat for our own pleasure, dress for the pleasure of others. Benjamin Franklin
43. The table is the only place where we don’t get bored from the very first minute. Anselm Brillat-Savarin
44. We are what we eat. Li Bo
45. It’s bad if a wife knows how to cook, but doesn’t want to; It’s even worse if she doesn’t know how, but wants to. Robert Frost
46. A gentleman never eats. He only has breakfast, lunch and dinner. Cole Porter
New and rediscovered aphorisms and quotes from books and the press
Food
I'm pretty sure that in the second before death, a dieter thinks, "Damn, why did I give up blueberry donuts 17 years ago?"
JOAQUIN PHOENIX, actor
A man is what he eats.
Der Mensch ist, was er isst.
LUDWIG FEUERBACH
If you want to prolong your life, shorten your meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The table is the only place where people don’t get bored from the very first minute.
ANSELM BRILLAT-SAVARIN
Since we are condemned to eat, let us eat well.
ANSELM BRILLAT-SAVARIN
After a good dinner, you can forgive anyone, even your relatives.
OSCAR WILDE
Some eat to live, others starve for the same purpose.
Don't put off until dinner what you can eat at lunch.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
It seems to me that every husband prefers a good dish without music to one without a good dish.
IMMANUEL KANT
Evil people live in order to eat and drink, virtuous people eat and drink in order to live.
SOCRATES
Animals feed, people eat; but only smart people they know how to eat.
ANSELM BRILLAT-SAVARIN
The diet is a scientifically developed program for the fight between the brain and the stomach, which is obviously doomed to failure.
ILYA GERCHIKOV
Hunger is the best seasoning for food.
SOCRATES
War is war, and lunch is on schedule.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM I
Appetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABLAIS
You have to love what you eat or love the person you cook for. Cooking is an act of love.
ALAIN CHAPELLE, chief.
Where there are pancakes, there we are, where there is porridge with butter, there is our place.
Russian proverb
If the country does not have at least fifty varieties of cheese and good wine, which means the country has reached the end of its rope.
SALVADOR DALI
The invention of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery nova.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
A. BRILLAT-SAVARIN
The rule of three “Cs”: only the one who can prepare a salad, sauce, soup is considered a real cook.
To become tasty, fish must swim three times: in water, in oil and in wine.
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.
Proverb
The most delicious cakes in my life were the cakes in the Warsaw confectionery in 1913 and these rats. Rats gave us the opportunity to survive, the cakes gave us a guide to why...
Aunt KATYA, siege survivor. Quote from: The New Times, 2010 No. 15, page 60
I love food. The food is delicious.
I Like Food. Food Tastes Good.
English book title
On the continent [Europe] people eat well, in Britain at the table good manners.
GEORGE MIKESH
In case of major troubles, I deny myself everything except food and drink.
OSCAR WILDE
To live well, you need to eat well.
A person should know no less about food than about mathematics or his native language.
GORDON RAMSAY, British chef, to Igor Serdyuk in an interview “In pursuit of extremes.” Quote from: Vedomosti, August 7, 2009
Cook quickly, eat slowly.
Hunger is the best seasoning for food.
Cibi condimentum est fames.
Latin
He who eats and drinks hastily does not live long in the world.
Czech proverb
Obesity in developed countries is a sign of poverty. When there is plenty of food, the wealthier prefer to eat not as much as possible, but as best as possible.
JOHN KAY, Financial Times columnist. Quote from: Vedomosti, September 26, 2008, p. 4
You usually don’t have enough health to buy your favorite food.
SOMEONE
The dishes should be beautiful, the rest is not important.
Alena, daughter of Alexander Galich, about the principle of a father who is unpretentious in food. Quote from: Story, 2008, No. 5, p. 105
They throw a stone at you, throw food back at you.
Bashkir proverb
"Eat simple food, and you can do anything.”
SOMEONE
“To stay in shape, you need rest, good food and, most importantly, no sports.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL
If you want to know me, eat with me.
JAMES JOYCE, "Ulysses"
God created food, and the devil created cooks.
JOHN TAYLOR
You need to eat more solid foods. You will immediately become a different person.
JAMES JOYCE, "Ulysses"
Cheese is the corpse of milk.
JAMES JOYCE, "Ulysses"
For a normal Japanese, there is nothing worse than rice that has lost its whiteness.
HARUKI MURAKAMI. Quote from: The New Times, 2008, No. 8, p. 61
Many of my views and habits were formed due to the fact that in my young years I was overfed with black caviar.
VIKTOR EROFEEV
It is easier to imagine Britain without the Queen than without tea.
British joke
No one can convince me that in a brilliant symphony more content than in a brilliant salad. If we erect a monument to Mozart, we are obliged to erect a monument to Mr. Olivier.
ANATOLY MARIENGOF, “Cynics”
“Tea should taste bitter, just like beer, and sugar or milk kills its true flavor.”
ALDOS HUXLEY
“How can we hope for peace and prosperity on earth if our bodies are living graves in which slaughtered animals are buried?”
LEO TOLSTOY
"Of course the best English food is simply French food."
GEORGE ORWELL, quoting this phrase from a French book and objecting to it passionately
“You need to cook slowly, with feeling, from the freshest organic ingredients, and eat with those you love, sharing big table. By endlessly accelerating the rhythm of life, we deprive ourselves of life itself.”
CARLO PETRINI, founder of the Slow Food movement. Quote from: “Kommersant-Weekend”, 2007, No. 49, p. 28
"English cuisine is much better than its reputation."
Connoisseurs
“Gastronomic art teaches a person to manage his time rationally and prudently. It cultivates in us both wise patience and instant reaction.”
SERGEY PARKHOMENKO in the article “About pea soup, with which no one is in a hurry.” "Kommersant Weekend", 2007, No. 62, p. 49
“Classic vinaigrette: everything delicious in one plate.”
SOMEONE
“Let them do what they want, but raising the price of coffee is too much.”
The heroine of SERGEY DOVLATOV
“I simply cannot eat caviar, but I have to force myself.”
The heroine of Audrey Tautou in the film “Fatal Beauty”
“It has long been known that in the kitchen quantity never turns into quality, rather the opposite.”
DARIA TSIVINA about the restaurant menu, where almost all the capitals of the world are represented. "Kommersant-Weekend", 2007, No. 36, p. 30
“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Feel free to pave the same path to a woman’s heart.”
SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater
“Be careful with a person who does not know how to eat or feed.”
Prince VLADIMIR ODOEVSKY, “Kitchen”, “Book Review”, 2007, No. 2, p. 19
"Too many cooks - goodbye stew."
English proverb
"Sauce hides a thousand sins."
An old cook's saying
“The second freshness - what nonsense! There is only one freshness – the first, and it is also the last.”
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV, "The Master and Margarita"
“For me, a restaurant is, first of all, about people. I want them to have fun."
ARKADY NOVIKOV, restaurateur. GQ, 2007, no. 4, p. 192
“You need to eat either fast food or black caviar. But both must be accompanied by fried potatoes.”
PARIS HILTON. Quote from: “7 Days”, 2007, No. 12, p. 35
“If you have unexpected guests and there is nothing at home, go down to the cellar and take a leg of lamb.”
ELENA MOLOKHOVETS. Quote from: “Kommersant Weekly”, 2007, No. 29, p. 39
"Ignoring walnuts, you are making one of the main mistakes in your life.”
Leaders of the Belgian Amateur Society walnuts. Quote from: “7 Days”, 2007, No. 12, p. 98
“Only fools are not gourmets.”
Norman wisdom
“The stuffing cannot be turned back.”
SOMEONE
“An Italian has only two thoughts in his head; the second is spaghetti.”
CATHERINE DENEUVE
"Nothing is harder empty stomach».
Malagasy saying
“Papanov and I worked abroad, we were paid little, so we ate canned food. One day he told me: “If you think that these canned goods are not reflected in our eyes, you are mistaken.”
ARMEN JIGARKHANYAN
"Don't waste your time trying to make the world's best spaghetti sauce - tastier than that“What’s sold in the supermarket around the corner won’t work anyway.”
From a fashion magazine
"Moonlit night and boiled rice always come in handy."
Japanese saying
"You just need to eat good food and little by little, the same with books and movies.”
Krzysztof Zanussi
“He who does not feed the body does not feed the spirit.”
Chefs' favorite saying
“The plate should have one part cruelty – pepper, vinegar, spices, three parts strength and six parts tenderness.”
“A good cook has a lot of character and feeling.”
EMIL YUN, chef of the Strasbourg restaurant “Au Crocodile”, Izvestia dated August 12, 2005
“When you try a seemingly simple haute cuisine dish, you feel the greatness of the chef being revealed.”
EMIL YUN, chef of the Strasbourg restaurant “Au Crocodile”, Izvestia dated August 12, 2005
“Are there rehabilitation clinics for Coca-Cola drinkers? I drink six cans a day!”
CARMEN ELECTRA
I'm a vegetarian not because I love animals - I just hate plants.
WHITNEY BROWN
If they don't have bread, let them eat cakes.
Allegedly, Marie Antoinette addressed the hungry poor of revolutionary Paris. In fact, the phrase had been circulating in the French press since 1760, that is, thirty years before the revolution. In addition, in the original there are not cakes, but brioche - white buns, that is, the same bread.