"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." - Aesop, Fables

"EDIBLE, adj.. 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, The Devil's Dictionary

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

"No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach." - William Cowper, in The Iconoclast

"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, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

"A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." - Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides

"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention." - Christopher Darlington Morley

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'

"MOTHER: It's broccoli, dear.: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." - B. White, cartoon caption in New Yorker

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

"There's no sauce in the world like hunger." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha

"It's a very odd thing
As odd as can be
That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T."
- WALTER DE LA MARE, Miss T.

"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, The Affluent Society

"He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters." - JAMES I, quoted in Thomas Fuller's Worthies of England

"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, Lucile

"Serenely full, the epicure would say,
Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today."
- SYDNEY SMITH, quoted in Lady Holland's Memoir

"MOTHER: It's broccoli, dear.
CHILD: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."
- E.B. WHITE, cartoon caption in New Yorker

"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. T: Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." - Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme (1755-1826)

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" - DeGaulle, Charles

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." - Fern, Fanny (1811-1872) in 'Willis Parton'

"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." - Marder, Jeff

"There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the taste out of a peanut butter sandwich." - Schulz, Charles M. spoken by Charlie Brown in the comic strip 'Peanuts'