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food

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

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.

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

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

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

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.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

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.

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

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

If music be the food of love, play on.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

If food were free, why work?

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

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.