Food Quotes

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

Fortune cookie

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

Erma Bombeck

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

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

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

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

Cathy Guisewite

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

Clive Lewis

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

J. G. Holland

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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

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

Peter De Vries

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

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

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

Woody Allen

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

Nicanor Parra

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