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From Denny: Since I just found out that Blogger only backs up posts and not the links in the sidebar or anything else on the blog... figured it was a great idea to put all my quotes lists into category posts. The blog should load faster too as it will reduce the number of links on the sidebar. Have fun grinning at how some people cook! :)
Quotes
* A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. - Katharine Whitehorn
* A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the world than any sermon. - Arthur Pendenys
* A hungry stomach seldoms scorns plain food. - Horace
* A smiling face is half the meal. - Latvian Proverb
* All you see, I owe to spaghetti. - Sophia Loren, actress
* Blow in its ear. - Johnny Carson on the best way to thaw out a frozen turkey
* Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. - Harriet Van Horne
* Cooking Rule... If at first you don't succeed, order pizza. - Anonymous
* Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table. - The Anarchist Cookbook
* Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal. - Anonymous
* Eating an artichoke is like getting to know someone really well. - Willi Hastings
* Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself. - Polish Proverb
* Fervet olla, vivit amicitia: While the pot boils, friendship endures. (Meaning the man who gives good dinners has plenty of friends). - Latin Proverb
* Fish, to taste right, must swim three times -- in water, in butter and in wine. - Polish Proverb
* Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Anonymous
* Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend. - Zenna Schaffer
* Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. - John Keats
* God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. - Thomas Deloney (1543-1600)
* He was a bold man who first swallowed an oyster. - James I Cheese--milk's leap towards immortality. - Clifton Fadiman
* Hunger finds no fault with the cooking. - Proverb
* Hunger is the best sauce in the world. - Cervantes
* Hungry men think the cook lazy. - Anonymous
* I don't eat snails. I prefer fast food. - Strange de Jim
* I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. - Katherine Cebrian
* I prefer my oysters fried; That way I know my oysters died. - Roy G. Blount, Jr.
* I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, “What for?” I said, “I'm going to buy some sugar.” - Steven Wright
* I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. - Woody Allen
* In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. - Jose Simon
* It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. - Julia Child on nouvelle cuisine
* Kissing don't last: cookery do. - George Meredith
* Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving. - Rosalind Russell
* Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. - Storm Jameson
* Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler
* Mothers, food, love, and career: the four major guilt groups. - Cathy Guisewite
* My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. - Oprah Winfrey
* My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
* My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. - Henry Youngman
* Never eat more than you can lift. - Miss Piggy of The Muppets fame
* No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. – Robert Morley
* Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. - Alex Levine
* Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
* Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G. K. Chesterson (1874-1936)
* Recipe For Chili: Put a pot of chili on the stove to simmer. Let it simmer. Meanwhile, broil a good steak. Eat the steak. Let the chili simmer. Ignore it. - Allan Shivers, former governor of Texas
Reminds me of my safari in Africa.
* Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. -W. C. Fields (1880-1946)
* Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. - Samuel Pepys
* The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star. - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
* The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. - Garrison Keillor
* The most dangerous food is wedding cake. - American proverb
* The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin
* The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain
* The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. - George Miller
* The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it. - Andy Rooney
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. - Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly
* There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
* There is no such thing as a little garlic. - Anonymous
* There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette. - French Proverb
* There is such a buildup of crud in my oven there is only room to bake a single cupcake. - Phyllis Diller
* Vanity is the food of fools. - Anonymous
* What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. - Anonymous
* What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others. - Lucretius
* What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. - Cindy Garner
* When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag. - Russell Baker
* When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. - Gail Sheehy
* When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. - Mark Twain
* When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. - Elayne Boolser
* Where there's smoke, there's toast. - Anonymous
* Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook. - Chinese Proverb
* You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles. - Miss Piggy, on eating Chinese Food
*** Thanks for visiting and come back often for a grin! :)