Food Quotes

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

The murals in restaurants are on a 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

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

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Margaret Fulle

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

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

J. G. Holland

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

Nicanor Parra

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

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 the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

Lucretius

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Socrates

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

Charles Baudelaire

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".

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

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Clive Lewis

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

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

Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

Peter De Vries

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

Assyrian Prove

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

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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