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Believing Food Quotes

“Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.”
James Thurber (1894-1961)
American writer and cartoonist.
 

“I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.”
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
 

“As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.  It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.”
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) American editor and critic.
 

“I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.”
'Saki', pen name of Scottish writer Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916)
 

“We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.”
Winston Churchill
 

“I strongly believe that culinary love is not about having a French Passport, but about what you feel.”
Albert Roux
 

“I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order (fowl) has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.”
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
‘Physiologie du gout’
 

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)

“Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry.”
Mike Kalin
 

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.”
Clarence Darrow
 

“I don't believe you have to be a cow to know what milk is.”
Ann Landers
 

“I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.”
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
 

“Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.”
Robert Byrne