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