food
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
15 wisdom & wit from Cyril Connolly
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 wisdom & wit from Alan Ladd
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
4 more views from Truman Capote
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
3 wisdom & wit 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
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
6 other quotes from Bela Lugosi
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
100 views from Oscar Wilde
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
6 more wisdom & wit from Leigh Hunt
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
5 more wisdom & wit from Ray Kroc
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
15 thoughts from Desiderius Erasmus
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
4 sayings from A. J. Liebling
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
6 quotes from Sarah Bernhardt
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 thoughts 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 thoughts from Virgil Thomson
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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
4 quotes from Dorothy Day
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 quotes from Samuel Butler
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 wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
15 sayings from Moliere
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
26 more quotes from E. M. Forster
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
2 more quotes from Hans Selye
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
4 more quotes from Barbara Tuchman
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
8 sayings from Ernest Holmes
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
29 other thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham
Beware the hobby that eats.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
37 sayings from Edmund Burke
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
24 quotes 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
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
10 more views 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 thoughts from James A. Michener
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
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 come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
33 more quotes from Erma Bombeck
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
4 thoughts from Thomas Malthus
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
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 thoughts from Peter De Vries
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
10 other wisdom & wit from Peter De Vries
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
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
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
6 views from Luther Burbank
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
7 thoughts 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 more sayings from Cesar Chavez
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
4 wisdom & wit from Giacomo Casanova
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
5 sayings from Nikita Khrushchev
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
25 other quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
If music be the food of love, play on.
81 views from William Shakespeare
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
9 more quotes from Margaret Fuller
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
2 more sayings 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
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!
8 quotes from Paul Lynde
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
47 thoughts from George Orwell
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
8 sayings from Paul Lynde
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
3 more quotes from Finley Peter Dunne
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
If food were free, why work?
16 more wisdom & wit from Douglas Horton
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
115 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Elias Canetti
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
115 thoughts 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
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
2 other quotes from Shmuel Y. Agnon
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
2 quotes from M. F. K. Fisher
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
4 quotes from Emmet Fox
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
115 more quotes 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 thoughts from M. F. K. Fisher
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
8 sayings from Raymond Chandler
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
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley