Food Quotes

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

Assyrian Prove

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

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

Margaret Fulle

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

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

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

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

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

Peter De Vries

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

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

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

Fortune cookie

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

Finley Peter Dunne

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Lucretius

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

Peter De Vries

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

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

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

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

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

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

W. C. Fields

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

Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

Clive Lewis

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".

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

Pearl Buck

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

Socrates