Food Quotes

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Fortune cookie

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

Dixie Lee Ray

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

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

Peter De Vries

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Finley Peter Dunne

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

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

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

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

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

Lucretius

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 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".

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Cyra McFadden

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