Food Quotes

Clive lewis - spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be...
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
Fran lebowitz - food is an important part of a balanced diet....
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
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
Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - Not sick, not wounded - Dead.
Woody Allen
Good food ends with good talk.
Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
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
Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Katharine Whitehorn
Erma bombeck - i am not a glutton - i am an explorer of food....
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
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
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
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
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 nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Dixie Lee Ray
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Lucretius
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
Alfred Hitchcock
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - - But not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland
The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
Albert Einstein
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
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
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Pearl Buck
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
Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
Linda Wells
Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham
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
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
Assyrian Prove
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
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead.
Woody Allen