Food Quotes

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

Cyra McFadden

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

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

Barbara Tuchman

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

Quintilian

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

Katharine Whitehorn

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Woody Allen

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

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

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

Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

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

Nicanor Parra

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

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

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

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