food
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
2 wisdom & wit from M. F. K. Fisher
If food were free, why work?
16 more views 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
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
4 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 thoughts from Elias Canetti
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
3 sayings from Finley Peter Dunne
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
8 quotes from Raymond Chandler
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
2 thoughts from M. F. K. Fisher
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
12 quotes from Franz Kafka
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
115 other thoughts 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 quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
15 other views from Cyril Connolly
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
4 sayings from Truman Capote
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
2 sayings 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
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
8 thoughts from Lewis Mumford
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
5 other views from Ray Kroc
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
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
6 sayings from Leigh Hunt
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
15 more quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
6 more quotes from Sarah Bernhardt
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
100 more wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
4 views from A. J. Liebling
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
6 views from Bela Lugosi
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
98 views from Mark Twain
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
29 other views from Friedrich Schiller
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
4 other wisdom & wit from Dorothy Day
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
19 quotes from Jonathan Swift
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
7 views from Joseph Wood Krutch
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
3 other quotes from Virgil Thomson
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
26 wisdom & wit from Emily Dickinson
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
17 other thoughts from Sammy Davis, Jr.
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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
14 other thoughts from James Thurber
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
96 other sayings from Benjamin Franklin
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 more views from W. C. Fields
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
37 other sayings from Edmund Burke
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
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
15 quotes from Moliere
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
24 other quotes from W. C. Fields
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
26 quotes from E. M. Forster
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
2 wisdom & wit from Hans Selye
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
4 quotes from Barbara Tuchman
Beware the hobby that eats.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
8 thoughts from Ernest Holmes
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
24 views from W. C. Fields
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
5 other quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
29 more wisdom & wit from W. Somerset Maugham
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
10 views from Peter De Vries
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 other quotes from Eva Gabor
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
4 quotes from James A. Michener
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
7 quotes 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 thoughts from John Barrymore
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
10 more sayings from Peter De Vries
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
10 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Erma Bombeck
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 other quotes from Cesar Chavez
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
6 quotes 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 thoughts from James Madison
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
7 more thoughts from Gloria Swanson
If music be the food of love, play on.
81 sayings from William Shakespeare
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
25 thoughts from Charles Baudelaire
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
4 sayings from Giacomo Casanova
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
5 other views from Nikita Khrushchev
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 other 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 quotes from Margaret Fuller
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!
8 sayings from Paul Lynde
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
8 thoughts from Paul Lynde