Food Quotes

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".

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

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

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Woody Allen

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Finley Peter Dunne

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

J. G. Holland

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Fortune cookie

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

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

Assyrian Prove

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

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

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

Erma Bombeck

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

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

Mark Twain

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

Clive Lewis

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

Woody Allen