Food Quotes

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

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

Fortune cookie

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

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

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

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

Socrates

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

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

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

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Woody Allen

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

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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

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

Quintilian

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

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

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

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Nicanor Parra

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

Peter De Vries

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

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

Cathy Guisewite

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