Food Quotes

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

Pearl Buck

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

Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Woody Allen

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

J. G. Holland

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

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

Assyrian Prove

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

Quintilian

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

Socrates

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

Lucretius

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

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

Clive Lewis

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

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

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

Fortune cookie

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Woody Allen

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

Margaret Fulle

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

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Woody Allen

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

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

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

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