Food Quotes

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

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

Clive Lewis

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

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Woody Allen

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

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Woody Allen

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

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

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

The murals in restaurants are on a 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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Socrates

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Cathy Guisewite

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

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

Lucretius

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

Assyrian Prove

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

Cyra McFadden

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

Margaret Fulle

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