Food Quotes
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - Not sick, not wounded - Dead.Woody Allen
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
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
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead.Woody Allen
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
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.J. G. Holland
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
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.Desiderius Erasmus
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
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
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".
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J. R. R. Tolkien
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
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
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
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
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
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.Hunter S. Thompson
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
Conversation is food for the soul.Mexican Prove
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.Sheila Graham
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
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.Lucretius
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003
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
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.Erma Bombeck
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
