Food Quotes

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

Peter De Vries

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

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

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

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Lucretius

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

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

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

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

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

Fortune cookie

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

Jim Rohn

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Pearl Buck

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

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

Woody Allen

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

Katharine Whitehorn

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

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

Margaret Fulle

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

Socrates

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue

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

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

Cyra McFadden

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

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - - But not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire