A. J. Liebling Quotes

Money means better meals at better places.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

I love breakfast. Well, I just like food. I'm properly into my food. It comes from my father. If we go anywhere, we like to look up the best restaurants.

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

I got a fascination with food.

In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.

I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive.

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

I live to eat - when someone else cooks for me.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.