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

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

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