Food Quotes

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

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Woody Allen

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

W. C. Fields

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Peter De Vries

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

Erma Bombeck

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

Nicanor Parra

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Woody Allen

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

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

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

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

Desiderius Erasmus

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

Pearl Buck

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

Lucretius

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

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

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

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".

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Charles Baudelaire

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 1

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fulle

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

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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