Food Quotes

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 for food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Barbara Tuchman

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

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

Fortune cookie

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 no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

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

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

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

Cyra McFadden

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

Woody Allen

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

J. G. Holland

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

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

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

Assyrian Prove

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

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

Woody Allen

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

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

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

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

Margaret Fulle

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

Lucretius

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

Mark Twain

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

Finley Peter Dunne

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Clive Lewis

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

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

Peter De Vries

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

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