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

If food were free, why work?

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

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

4 wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts 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 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 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 more views 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 other thoughts 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 sayings from Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

15 thoughts from Cyril Connolly

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

4 more quotes from Truman Capote

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

2 quotes 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 other 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 other thoughts from Lewis Mumford

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

5 more wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Leigh Hunt

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

15 wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus

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

6 more wisdom & wit from Sarah Bernhardt

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

100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

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

4 thoughts 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 other quotes 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 thoughts from Friedrich Schiller

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

4 more quotes from Dorothy Day

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

19 wisdom & wit 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 more 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 quotes from Virgil Thomson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

26 other quotes from Emily Dickinson

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

17 quotes 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 views from James Thurber

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

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 wisdom & wit from W. C. Fields

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

37 more 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 quotes from W. C. Fields

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

26 other quotes from E. M. Forster

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

2 quotes from Hans Selye

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

4 more quotes from Barbara Tuchman

Beware the hobby that eats.

96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

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

8 other quotes from Ernest Holmes

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

24 other 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

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

29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

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

10 more quotes 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 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 thoughts from James A. Michener

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

7 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 thoughts from John Barrymore

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

10 sayings from Peter De Vries

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

33 sayings from Erma Bombeck

Murals in restaurants are on a 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

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

33 other views 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 quotes 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 more 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 quotes from James Madison

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

7 views from Gloria Swanson

If music be the food of love, play on.

81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

38 other thoughts from William Hazlitt

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

25 wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire

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

4 other quotes from Giacomo Casanova

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

5 more wisdom & wit from Nikita Khrushchev

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

2 quotes from Joseph Butler

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

7 more wisdom & wit 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 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 more thoughts from Paul Lynde