eating quotes

   Forests of middle-aged men in dark suits†all slightly redfaced from eating and drinking too much†a nightmare of elderly white males.

- DianeJulie Abbott
  Of the House of Commons. In the NewYork Times, 3  Jun.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'Muse  e des Beaux  Arts'.

Dinner parties are for eating, not mating.

- Millicent Hammond Fenwick
Reminder to hostesses who only invite people in pairs. In the NewYork Times, 25 Sep1984.

Eating people is wrong!

- Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop Flanagan
  'The Reluctant Cannibal'. Malcolm Bradbury took the phrase as the title of his1959 novel.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
Table-Talk,'Eating'.

It's like saying that the patient died but the good news is that he's eating less.

- Andrew,Jr Jacobs
  Of the Reagan administration's claim to have reduced inflation. In the Washington Post, 6  Jun.

L'appe  tit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes with eating.

- Fran c° ois Rabelais
  Gargantua, bk.1, ch.5.

My idea of heaven is, eating pate   de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.

- Rev Sydney Smith
Quoted in H PearsonThe Smith of Smiths, (1934), ch.10.

Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.

-James Grover Thurber
  Further Fables for OurTime.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

-William Wycherley
  The CountryWife, act 3, sc.2.