Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."
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Hippocrates
Physician
"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
Adelle Davis
Nutritionist
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality."
Socrates
Philosopher
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
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"A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."
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"Noodles are not only amusing but delicious."
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"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."
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"If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate."
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"The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine."
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"All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience."
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"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
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"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism."
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"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
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"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook."
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"Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing."
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"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."
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"Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine."
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"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
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"The last taste of sweets is sweetest last."
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"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
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"Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters."
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