Food Quotes

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
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
Geoffrey neighor, northern exposure, duets, 1993 - good food ends with good talk....
Assyrian prove - the rich would have to eat money if the poor did...
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
Alfred Hitchcock
The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
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".
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
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Lucretius
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
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
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
When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.
Desiderius Erasmus
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
Eric hoffer,
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher, O Magazine, November 2003
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham
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
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 great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - - But not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
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
Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
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 will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - Not sick, not wounded - Dead.
Woody Allen
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
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne