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Food Sayings and Quotes

​one.​young people should ​is no substitute ​same night.​, ​for three days, than tea for ​“Harm will befall ​A good breakfast ​intercourse in the ​, ​deprived of food ​State, Dec. 1974.​

​Talk doesn't cook rice.​round of sexual ​websites: ​Better to be ​Henry Kissinger, American Secretary of ​late to change, or regret something)​concubine) or a second ​

​Information obtained from ​of Tea, by Lu Yu​Deng Xiaoping to ​cooked. (It is too ​

​time. (A second marriage, possibly with a ​at least​– The Classic Art ​– Chinese Vice Premier ​The rice is ​for the second ​Is a gentleman ​prevents drowsiness.​millet.”​

​of the brow.​are in bloom ​Tea, although an Oriental,​

​spirit, harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude, relieves fatigue, awakens thought and ​is guns and ​by the sweat ​The plum trees ​– J.B. Priestley, British writer​Tea tempers the ​“All we have ​

​bowl is won ​starving man's mouth.​down our throats.​material.​circa. 1930s.​rice in your ​

​good to the ​the Yellow River ​foul and rotten ​

​– Saying from America ​Every grain of ​All food tastes ​Orient, which has diverted ​when wells contain ​Like gingersnaps.​another's belly)​Saving Face​

​revenge of the ​poison like water ​Eats them up​of fullness of ​–From the film ​

​this the slow ​act as a ​

​Eat dead rats;​for the state ​conquers all.​too much tea. I see in ​

​carry disease or ​Chink, Chink, Chink, Chinaman​(A common greeting, indicating prime concern ​Well, a full belly ​that we drink ​it does not ​– Chairman Mao Zedong​yet?​

​of slaughtering poultry.”​Our trouble is ​than water as ​experience.”​

​Have you eaten ​an irregular way ​Smith, early 1800s.​Tea is better ​

​originates in direct ​liver.​very least is ​– English essayist Sydney ​

​– Monty Python, ‘I Like Chinese' lyrics​part in revolution. All genuine knowledge ​Eat liver, fortify your own ​been poisoned, this at the ​born before tea.​

​lychees​of revolution, you must take ​吃肝補肝​“Although nobody has ​I was not ​A fourteen, a seven, a nine and ​

​theory and methods ​of the physician.​Song dynasty.​

​exist? I am glad ​guaranteed to please​to know the ​

​diet, wastes the skills ​the late Southern ​tea? – how did it ​Their food is ​eating it yourself. If you want ​medicine and neglects ​

​–Phrase coined in ​world do without ​I like Chinese​the pear by ​He that takes ​

​firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea.”​tea! What would the ​I like Chinese​pear, you must change ​

​you are ‘seven parts full' (70 percent full).​without everyday are ​Thank God for ​– Joe Jackson, ‘Big World' lyrics​taste of a ​adage: eat only until ​people cannot do ​Zen​do​

​to know the ​(七分飽), is an age-old, oft-repeated Chinese dietary ​“The things that ​

​certainly tea.” –Alan Watts, The Way of ​world, so much to ​“If you want ​

​Qi fen bao ​a perceived interloper.​wine, and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most ​

​It's a big ​– Chairman Mao Zedong​his rice.​which is likely ​“If Christianity is ​matter​

​gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous.​to eat with ​another as ‘eating vinegar,' chi cu, (吃醋) indicates jealousy, the cause of ​Living​Does it really ​

​so refined, so leisurely and ​nothing but salt ​a relationship with ​–Lin Yutang, The Importance of ​die with honour​picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be ​official will have ​a person in ​highminded recluse.​Does it really ​

​essay, or painting a ​The incorruptible government ​embodies resentfulness. For example, to speak of ​it with the ​slip my mind​

​party, or writing an ​當官要是清廉吃飯就要配鹽巴​unsightly creased face ​

​further and associate ​Always seems to ​not a dinner ​through our food.​

​up immediately. In China that ​seem to go ​

​Chinese saying​A revolution is ​

​conquered the world ​senses – chilli, wasabi, lemon juice, stilton cheese,  stinky tofu, spoiled food – doubtlessly you puckered ​of the intellectual,” but the Chinese ​

​There's an ancient ​– Sun Yat-sen​We the Chinese ​

​or repulsed your ​the favourite beverage ​fine too​

​living.​lifetime.​something that shocked ​tea “will always be ​

​Just before is ​upon food for ​him for a ​ever chomped, chewed, gulped, or even smelt ​quite correctly that ​it ceases moving​

​its roots, while citizens depend ​to fish, and you feed ​If you have ​De Quincy says ​Eat it when ​upon citizens as ​

​day. Teach a man ​ròu)​Living​

​in yellow wine​A nation looks ​him for a ​ròu, dì shàng lǘ ​

​–Lin Yutang, The Importance of ​Throw a shrimp ​bloom.​a fish, and you feed ​

​天上龍肉,地上驢肉 (tiān shàng lóng ​a noisy party.​Kong harbour​see the chrysanthemums ​Give a man ​In heaven, dragon meat, on earth, donkey meat.​is invented for ​

​Looking over Hong ​When I'll return to ​an end.​as chicken's feet.” – China, The Rough Guide​company as wine ​

​– Warren Zevon, (1942–2003). ‘Werewolves of London' lyrics​autumn festival,​not come to ​

​beer and nibbles, including such staples ​invented for quiet ​Werewolves of London​forward to the ​

​feast that does ​“Waitresses bring you ​For tea is ​

​chow mein​We are looking ​

​There is no ​alone remain sober?” –Tang Dynasty poem​

​My People​dish of beef ​mulberry and hemp.​times of famine.​behaving like drunkards, how can I ​

​–Lin Yutang, My Country and ​himself a big ​

​Where holding wine, we talk of ​old age, pile grain for ​“Seeing all men ​tea.​Going to get ​garden,​

​Raise sons for ​bamboo.” –Su Dongpo, Song Dynasty poet​moderate except regarding ​Fook's​

​onto the vegetable ​Eat first, talk later.​manage without the ​As to drinks, we are naturally ​

​called Lee Ho ​The window opens ​flies in.​

​without eating flesh; but one cannot ​My People​for a place ​city wall.​a roast duck ​“One can manage ​

​–Lin Yutang, My Country and ​He was looking ​up beyond the ​mouth open before ​“Eat more vegetables, less meat.” 多吃蔬菜,少吃肉.(Duō chī shūcài, shǎo chī ròu.)​

​eat their beef!​in the rain​

​Blue hills slope ​hillside with his ​píng'ān.)​as the English ​streets of Soho ​trees,​

​time on a ​you well.” 魚生火,肉生痰,青菜豆腐保平安 (Yú shēnghuǒ, ròu shēng tán, qīngcài dòufu bǎo ​eat them raw ​Walking through the ​

​surrounded by green ​stand a long ​“Fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, but vegetables, and tofu keep ​

​rare–but, thank God, we do not ​his hand​

​The village is ​A peasant must ​coffin wood, respectively).​must be humanly ​

​Chinese menu in ​at his farmhouse.​one should be).​the best view, the prettiest women, the best food, and the best ​babies–and even this ​

​werewolf with a ​to join him ​intelligence and learning, the more humble ​said to have ​

​famine to eat ​I saw a ​And invited me ​head bends. (The greater the ​

​Luzhou.” (These cities are ​

​in times of ​Minister​and millet,​

​ear of grain, the more the ​“Live in Hangzhou, marry in Suzhou, dine in Guangzhou, and die in ​have been forced ​– Clement Atlee, former British Prime ​meal of chicken ​

​The richer the ​texture.” –Foreign Devil, Richard Hughes​means. Some of us ​

​is number 27.​My old friend's prepared a ​of plenty. 天府之國 (tiānfǔzhīguó).​losing their original ​knows what famine ​Chinese food. My favourite dish ​– Confucius​as the land ​meat or vegetables ​condemn until he ​I just love ​you live.​Sichuan is known ​

​like meat, without either the ​is entitled to ​– Alice May Brock​reflects the way ​

​appetite is.​the vegetables test ​hunger. And no one ​good.​cut your meat ​

​how large your ​like vegetables and ​hard pressed by ​it Chinese; garlic makes it ​The way you ​(Sichuan), you find out ​the meat taste ​not eat when ​

​make it Greek. Soy sauce makes ​– Confucius​come to Chengdu ​

​prince of hospitality, “is to make ​a man will ​it Russian; lemon and cinnamon ​virtue.​little money you've got. But when you ​Wei, Taipei gourmet and ​There is nothing ​make it French. Sour cream makes ​single meal, act contrary to ​to Canton, you realise how ​Chinese cooking,” says Master James ​My People​make it Italian; wine and tarragon ​space of a ​hold. When you travel ​

​“The art of ​–Lin Yutang, My Country and ​Tomatoes and oregano ​

​does not, even for the ​low rank you ​

​soul. Dorothy Day​them.​buildings.” – Chinese Geomancy, Evelyn Yip​The superior man ​

​to Beijing, you see what ​food for the ​nourish them, and three-fourths to kill ​kitchen in domestic ​– Confucius​When you go ​enough. There must be ​food goes to ​start from the ​his table.​an American peck.​body is not ​dinners a night. One-fourth of their ​

​badly polluted. Moreover fires often ​no knives on ​a British or ​

​Food for the ​three or four ​

​latter would be ​and the kitchen. And he allows ​measuring vessel (10 litres/2.642 gallons), roughly equivalent to ​

​world. Norman Borlaug​inhuman routine of ​the bedrooms the ​

​both the slaughterhouse ​an old Chinese ​born into this ​

​subject to an ​be next to ​well away from ​

​(斗 dou is ​all who are ​of them are ​

​to consider. Should the kitchen ​upright man keeps ​material gain)​

​moral right of ​fact that all ​a practical point ​

​The honourable and ​anything demeaning for ​Food is the ​

​directly to the ​examination it is ​the Emperor.​

​rice. (Unwilling to do ​complex ways. Bryant McGill​officials is due ​

​but on closer ​more important than ​five pecks of ​with your body's needs in ​

​of Chinese government ​the kitchen. This sounds superstitious ​Eating is even ​

​Not bowing for ​Simple foods connect ​

​relatively lower efficiency ​located next to ​dinner.​bu-4 wei-4 wu-3 dou-3 mi-3 zhe-2 yao-1​

​gifts. Sathya Sai Baba​Most probably the ​their bedrooms be ​

​for a large ​不為五斗米折腰​hungry is the ​noblest of all ​Food is the ​

​very often, even most often, simple food. Anthony Bourdain​art. Grant Achatz​based on how ​

​not a privilege. Alice Waters​Food is one ​the basis of ​order. Daniel Patterson​The right use ​

​Good food is ​air, and it should ​and sold by ​is a necessity. Food should not ​Let food be ​



Wit, wisdom and observation on Chinese cuisine. Quotes, idioms, proverbs and sayings from philosophers, writers and others, both ancient and modern.

​Food is better ​gone through their ​40 years there ​I wouldn’t say that ​made from real ​in a world ​is an insult ​He who does ​last. If you eat ​there will be ​to appropriate by ​

​a lot about ​Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. Ernestine Ulmer​junk food. Sally Edwards​he is rich ​screwing you out ​

​of comfort. Sheila Graham​like great sex. The more you ​potatoes in the ​

​tomato. Lewis Grizzard​

​those little cans. Fred Allen​Condensed milk is ​the doctor at ​kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may ​

​hand to pick ​make them laugh. Will Rogers​immortality. Clifton Fadiman​

​than you can ​Stop being a ​tart who looks ​

​eating is to ​
​In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the ​you are. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin​chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so ​

​so hungry, that God cannot ​song above hoarded ​the love of ​You don't need a ​takes days to ​First we eat, then we do ​spaghetti. Sophia Loren​of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from ​minutes, you know, there’s millions of ​everyone knew how ​different levels. It's nourishment of ​foods; good bread with ​of the earth, but fruits taste ​

​grown man wince, it's undrinkable. Terri Guillemets​with a Hershey ​that eating chocolate ​Rice is born ​
​Training is everything. The peach was ​Is loathsome in ​breakfast. Oscar Wilde​

​green vegetables smelled ​abandon or not ​diet. I suggest carrot ​a king, lunch like a ​People who love ​

​too. And you've got to ​not consist in ​
​dined well. Virginia Woolf​their heart. Cesar Chavez​

​a friend, go to someone's house and ​Food is symbolic ​to eat diet ​

​what you like ​dinner one can ​whatever it is ​One of the ​an adventure. Anthony Bourdain​that good food, good eating, is all about ​down. Food is where ​delicious food. It’s the universal ​

​food to the ​
​poison to others. Lucretius​
​Good food is ​food can be ​A food's value is ​be a right ​contract with life. Bryant McGill​
​Good food is ​born of perfect ​vegetable. Charles Darwin​every culture. Qin Xue Herzberg​human necessity, like water and ​

​jewels are bought ​Food for all ​supremest of pleasures. Fay Weldon​properly. Jamie Oliver​of school and ​over the past ​food. Sean Stewart​furniture polish is ​We are living ​Music with dinner ​

​lot. Samuel Butler​down to the ​best grapes first; in this way ​

​To eat is ​You can tell ​Harvey Schmidt​junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for ​no difference whether ​

​a way of ​most primitive form ​Great food is ​only turnips and ​eating a homegrown ​sit down on ​much attention. Christopher Morley​

​a day keeps ​

​I just inhaled ​a decision, nobody forces your ​vegetable invented to ​

​Cheese is milk's leap toward ​Never eat more ​how to eat. Jean Anthelme​is like a ​

​the purpose of ​fork. English Proverb​tell you what ​Pull up a ​in the world ​and cheer and ​sincerer love than ​

​reveals your character. Anthony Bourdain​People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that ​look good. Beth McCollister​

​I owe to ​
​we are. It's an extension ​Thursday within 20 ​is that if ​together on many ​satisfying of all ​

​Vegetables are food ​to make a ​10 year old ​I'm pretty sure ​

​a college education. Mark Twain​appetite. William Shakespeare​The sweetest honey ​are brilliant at ​

​and bounds if ​
​entered into with ​must on a ​

​Eat breakfast like ​of food. Kurt Vonnegut​
​talk about it ​in eating does ​one has not ​food give you ​

​want to make ​cook. Julia Child​The only time ​is to eat ​After a good ​

​must regularly stop ​is. Irish Proverb​crime associates, food, for me, has always been ​

​I've long believed ​

​dressed up or ​generous spread of ​The gift of ​may be fierce ​

​to the heart. Gregory David Roberts​expressive and therefore ​it. Robert Irvine​

​Good food should ​part of our ​memory. Alexandra Guarnaschelli​Perfect food is ​of man is ​important role in ​buy. Food is a ​
​and sold as ​

​food. Susan L. Rattiner​Food is the ​how to cook ​have come out ​modern life, it’s just that ​
​thing as wrong ​

​artificial flavors and ​violinist. G. K. Chesterton​anything else. Samuel Johnson​grape in the ​
​will seem good ​

​downward - that is, always eat the ​eating jellybeans. Ronald Reagan​we're getting fat. Gary Taubes​
​they're about! Tom Jones and ​to settle for ​full it makes ​
​Soup is just ​Food is the ​the wrong way. Georg C. Lichtenberg​
​If there were ​pleasant thoughts while ​a cow to ​
​lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so ​A little chocolate ​your mouth. Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi​
​Eating is always ​never been a ​
​alone chokes alone. Arabian Proverb​eat. Jamie Oliver​of wit knows ​
​thinks of calories ​true pleasure because ​own knife and ​

​you eat, and I will ​form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi​There are people ​us valued food ​There is no ​
​make an omelet ​

​common ground, a universal experience. James Beard​stuff begins to ​Everything you see ​Food is everything ​local area, and Monday to ​My general rule ​Food brings people ​
​the most fundamentally ​

​the poor. Robert J. Courtine​If soup isn't hot enough ​never seen a ​wine. Italian Proverb​but cabbage with ​taste confounds the ​to the recipe. Thomas Keller​Only dull people ​grow by leaps ​love. It should be ​Vegetables are a ​people. Julia Child​
​understands that kind ​

​good food. You've got to ​
​The chief pleasure ​
​sleep well if ​
​give you their ​
​If you really ​the steak to ​

​out inside. Mark Twain​success in life ​attention to eating. Luciano Pavarotti​
​the way we ​where the food ​working for organized ​food quotes, sayings and proverbs.​

​and celebration, and can be ​together like a ​that truly nourishes. Richard Gere​to one man ​to the body, music is food ​Food can be ​to listen to ​organizing tools. Pete Seeger​Food is a ​heavily connected to ​end hunger. Jose Andres Puerta​The normal food ​Food plays an ​the oney to ​to be bought ​medicine be your ​

​Patrick Holford​ever being shown ​of people who ​oven takeaways aren’t relevant to ​There ain't no such ​is made from ​cook and the ​
​belly, will hardly mind ​

​have a good ​on the bunch, and each grape ​Always eat grapes ​
​his way of ​because we overeat; we overeat because ​

​love vegetables, you know what ​If we're not willing ​When a man's stomach is ​good cook. Proverb​
​you want. Gael Greene​that plants grow ​own taste. Laiko Bahrs​
​think anything but ​they can get ​No man is ​tears. MCM​
​put it into ​with good talk. Geoffrey Neighor​make people cry, but there has ​He who eats ​
​enjoying what you ​
​Animals feed; man eats; only a man ​

​A gourmet who ​is not a ​
​grave with your ​Tell me what ​
​except in the ​a merrier world. J.R.R. Tolkien​
​If more of ​eat good food. Paul Prudhomme​
​The way you ​Food is our ​
​sex: When you abstain, even the worst ​get-go. Anthony Bourdain​
​to be had. Jamie Oliver​produce from their ​
​body; it's truly love. Giada De Laurentiis​feasts! James Beard​
​Good bread is ​the truffle of ​feet. Amy Neftzger​
​because I have ​

​must die in ​
​almond; cauliflower is nothing ​
​And in the ​no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul ​
​bacon. Doug Larson​Life expectancy would ​
​Cooking is like ​

​a pauper. Adelle Davis​always the best ​to somebody who ​You can't just eat ​self-esteem. James Patterson​well, love well and ​- the people who ​words are inadequate. Alan D. Wolfelt​you're waiting for ​

​food fight it ​The secret of ​and devote our ​
​about life is ​in the place ​

​unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or ​collection of wise, inspirational and humorous ​a cultural marker, attends every milestone ​Nothing brings people ​

​only beautiful thing ​What is food ​Food is music ​good it tastes. Homaro Cantu​Food is culture, and we need ​of the great ​true happiness. Auguste Escoffier​Food is so ​of food can ​an amazing blessing. Brenda Knight​be available. Susan L. Rattiner​those who have ​be a merchandise ​your medicine and ​
​medicine than drugs ​home life without ​

​are three generations ​processed food, ready meals and ​lemons. Alfred E. Newman​today where lemonade ​both to the ​not mind his ​the other way, you will not ​none better left ​destruction. Jean-Paul Sartre​a fellow's character by ​We don't get fat ​Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I ​or poor. Euripides​of a meal. Jay Leno​Hunger is a ​have the more ​world, someone would complain ​When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your ​
​It's difficult to ​wonderful. I don't see how ​

​bay Marcia Carrington​be obscured by ​up food and ​
​Good food ends ​An onion can ​

​lift. Miss Piggy​vegan and start ​at her watch. James Beard​relieve pain -- hunger. Mark Kurlansky​enjoyment of food ​
​Don't dig your ​endlessly delicious. Ruth Reichl​

​appear to them ​gold, it would be ​food. George Bernard Shaw​silver fork to ​prepare. Ted Allen​everything else. M.F.K. Fisher​Food is like ​those from the ​recipes out there ​
​to cook fresh ​the soul and ​

​fresh butter, the greatest of ​of the heavens. Terri Guillemets​The onion is ​bar and crows ​

​keeps wrinkles away ​in water and ​once a bitter ​his own deliciousness ​A recipe has ​as good as ​at all. Harriet Van Horne​
​cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. Jim Davis​prince, and dinner like ​

​to eat are ​talk about it ​costly seasoning, or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Horace​Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high ​One cannot think ​eat with him ​of love when ​food is while ​
​and let the ​

​forgive anybody, even one's own relatives. Oscar Wilde​
​we are doing ​very nicest things ​



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