Food Quotes

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

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 like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

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

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

Desiderius Erasmus

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Socrates

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

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

Woody Allen

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Nicanor Parra

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Peter De Vries

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

Cathy Guisewite