Food Quotes

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

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

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Dixie Lee Ray

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

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

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.

Zenna Schaffe

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman

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

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

Cyra McFadden

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Finley Peter Dunne

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

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

Woody Allen

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

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

Pearl Buck

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

Peter De Vries

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Clive Lewis

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

Assyrian Prove

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal".

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003

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

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

Fortune cookie

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

Woody Allen

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

Peter De Vries

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

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

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

Lucretius