Food Quotes

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".

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Clive Lewis

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

Pearl Buck

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

Cyra McFadden

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

Finley Peter Dunne

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Nicanor Parra

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

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

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

Margaret Fulle

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

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

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

Charles E. Wilson

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

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

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Woody Allen

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Jim Rohn

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

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

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

J. G. Holland

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien