Food Quotes
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.Fortune cookie
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
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
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".
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
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
Good food ends with good talk.Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.Katharine Whitehorn
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J. R. R. Tolkien
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.Peter De Vries
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
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
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.Erma Bombeck
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - - But not without poetry.Charles Baudelaire
Conversation is food for the soul.Mexican Prove
Health food makes me sick.Calvin Trillin
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
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
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - But not without poetry.Charles Baudelaire
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
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.Peter De Vries
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.J. G. Holland
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
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.Quintilian
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.Sheila Graham
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
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
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
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
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
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead.Woody Allen
