food
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
26 quotes from Emily Dickinson
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
14 other quotes from James Thurber
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
17 quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
15 more thoughts from Moliere
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
12 wisdom & wit from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
2 quotes from Hans Selye
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.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
29 other quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
5 views from J. R. R. Tolkien
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
26 thoughts from E. M. Forster
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
4 other quotes from Barbara Tuchman
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
8 views from Ernest Holmes
Beware the hobby that eats.
96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
10 other quotes from Peter De Vries
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
4 more quotes from James A. Michener
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
33 more wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.
6 quotes from Eva Gabor
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
10 sayings from Peter De Vries
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
7 more views from Walter Bagehot
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
12 quotes from John Barrymore
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
10 thoughts from Peter De Vries
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
4 other quotes from Thomas Malthus
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
33 more wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
6 wisdom & wit from Luther Burbank
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
27 more quotes from James Madison
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
7 quotes from Gloria Swanson
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
3 quotes from Cesar Chavez
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
25 quotes from Charles Baudelaire
If music be the food of love, play on.
81 other sayings from William Shakespeare
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
5 more thoughts from Nikita Khrushchev
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
38 other views from William Hazlitt
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
4 quotes from Giacomo Casanova
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
2 wisdom & wit from Joseph Butler
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
7 sayings from Kate Smith
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
9 more thoughts from Margaret Fuller
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
8 quotes from Paul Lynde
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
47 other wisdom & wit from George Orwell
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!
8 more views from Paul Lynde
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
2 other quotes from M. F. K. Fisher
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
12 other views from Franz Kafka
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
2 more sayings from M. F. K. Fisher
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
6 more quotes from Elias Canetti
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
8 quotes from Raymond Chandler
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
3 thoughts from Finley Peter Dunne
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
If food were free, why work?
16 thoughts from Douglas Horton
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
2 quotes from Shmuel Y. Agnon
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
4 other quotes from Emmet Fox
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
19 thoughts from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
22 other quotes from Samuel Richardson
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
2 wisdom & wit from Ivan Pavlov
It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
4 quotes from Alan Ladd
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
4 other thoughts from Truman Capote
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
15 wisdom & wit from Cyril Connolly
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
15 quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
5 quotes from Ray Kroc
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
4 quotes from A. J. Liebling
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
6 views from Sarah Bernhardt
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
6 quotes from Bela Lugosi
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
6 quotes from Leigh Hunt
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
3 quotes from P. G. Wodehouse
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
8 quotes from Lewis Mumford
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
19 quotes from Jonathan Swift
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
3 quotes from Virgil Thomson
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
4 thoughts from Dorothy Day
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
7 thoughts from Joseph Wood Krutch
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
29 sayings from Friedrich Schiller
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
98 more thoughts from Mark Twain