Food Quotes

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

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

Socrates

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

Peter De Vries

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

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

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

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

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

Katharine Whitehorn

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe

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

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

Quintilian

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Cyra McFadden

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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

Cathy Guisewite

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

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

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

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

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

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

Woody Allen

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finley Peter Dunne