Food Quotes

Erma bombeck - i am not a glutton - i am an explorer of food....
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1
Calvin trillin - health food makes me sick....
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
Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
Charles baudelaire - any healthy man can go without food for two days...
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
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
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Katharine Whitehorn
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
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
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
Desiderius Erasmus
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
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
Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
Linda Wells
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
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
Assyrian Prove
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
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
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick - - Not wounded - - Dead.
Woody Allen
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
Clive Lewis
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
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - Not sick, not wounded - Dead.
Woody Allen
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
Albert Einstein
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fulle
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham
Conversation is food for the soul.
Mexican Prove
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
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
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
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
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain