Food Quotes

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

Jim Rohn

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

Woody Allen

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Linda Wells

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

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

Finley Peter Dunne

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 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

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

Nicanor Parra

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

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

Peter De Vries

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

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

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzini

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

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

Clive Lewis

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

Assyrian Prove

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Pearl Buck

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

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

Woody Allen

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

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

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

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".

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

Woody Allen

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein