Food Quotes

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

Cyra McFadden

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Dom Helder Camara

Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1

Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Hunter S. Thompson

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

Charles E. Wilson

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick - - Not wounded - - Dead.

Woody Allen

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.

Erma Bombeck

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.

Fortune cookie

A day out - Of - Doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - - That would be rest.

Roosevelt, Eleano

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Lucretius

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Finley Peter Dunne

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.

Robert Martin Fuoss

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Margaret Mead

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - Not sick, not wounded - Dead.

Woody Allen