Food Quotes

Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

Woody Allen

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

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

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Jim Rohn

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

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

Woody Allen

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

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

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

Cyra McFadden

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

Socrates

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Lucretius

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

Cathy Guisewite

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

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

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

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

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story - Telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fulle

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

W. H. Auden

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Peter De Vries