Food Quotes

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

Barbara Tuchman

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Clive Lewis

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

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

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

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

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

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

Peter De Vries

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Nicanor Parra

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

Dixie Lee Ray

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

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Charles Baudelaire

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

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

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Cyra McFadden

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

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

Woody Allen

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

J. G. Holland

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

Quintilian

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

Erma Bombeck

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

W. C. Fields

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

Socrates

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