Food Quotes

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

Mark Twain

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

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

Quintilian

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

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".

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

Fortune cookie

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

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Dom Helder Camara

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

Katharine Whitehorn

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.

Erma Bombeck

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

W. C. Fields

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 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

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

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

Desiderius Erasmus

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

Peter De Vries

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

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

Jim Rohn

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

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

Nicanor Parra

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

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

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

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