Let’s talk turkey: Although Thanksgiving is about gratitude and thanking God for all the good things in our lives, one of the best parts of the holiday is sitting at the dinner table with friends and family and enjoying yummy food. And when the friends and family start to drain all of our energy like emotional vampires, chowing down on a nice Thanksgiving spread can distract us from any annoyances that day. Here are some quotes about food that you can enjoy on Thanksgiving—right before you pass out from your tryptophan-induced coma.
1. “Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
–Ambrose Bierce
2. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
–Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
3. “It's a very odd thing—
As odd as can be—
That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T.”
–Walter De La Mare
4. “Cheese—milk's leap toward immortality.”
–Clifton Fadiman
5. "More die in the United States of too much food than too little."
–John Kenneth Galbraith
6. “A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.”
–Samuel Johnson
7. “We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience,
and live without heart;
We may live without friends;
we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.”
–Owen Meredith
8. “According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat.”
–Moliere
9. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
–George Bernard Shaw
10. “Serenely full, the epicure would say,
Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.”
–Sydney Smith
11. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
–Virginia Woolf
12. "A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill can hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak,
Food enough for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican."
–Dixon Lanier Merritt
13. "Hard was their lodging, homely was their food;
For all their luxury was doing good."
–Sir Samuel Garth
14. “The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.”
–William Shakespeare
15. “Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais’d to shed his blood.”
–Alexander Pope
16. “What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”
–Lucretius
17. "It's food too fine for angels; yet come, take
And eat thy fill! It's Heaven's sugar cake.”
–Edward Taylor
18. “The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as good cooks go, she went.”
–Saki
19. “Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.”
–Vladimir Lenin
20. “God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.”
–John Taylor
Sources:
Bartlett, John. (2002). Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. Little, Brown and Company.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations. Merriam-Webster.
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press.
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