Food Quotes

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

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Dixie Lee Ray

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

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

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

Cathy Guisewite

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

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

Cyra McFadden

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

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

Clive Lewis

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

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

Woody Allen

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Peter De Vries

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

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.

Erma Bombeck

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

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

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

Fortune cookie

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

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

Finley Peter Dunne

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

Socrates

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

Pearl Buck