Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

food

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 wisdom & wit from Cesar Chavez

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 wisdom & wit from James Madison

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. 7 other quotes from Gloria Swanson

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. 6 views from Luther Burbank

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. 38 views from William Hazlitt

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. 25 more views from Charles Baudelaire

If music be the food of love, play on. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? 5 other quotes from Nikita Khrushchev

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. 4 views from Giacomo Casanova

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

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. 7 quotes from Kate Smith

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. 2 other quotes from Joseph Butler

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. 47 more wisdom & wit from George Orwell

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household. 8 more quotes from Paul Lynde

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! 8 sayings from Paul Lynde

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. 2 more wisdom & wit from M. F. K. Fisher

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. 2 thoughts from Shmuel Y. Agnon

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. 3 more sayings from Finley Peter Dunne

If food were free, why work? 16 other views from Douglas Horton

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. 115 more sayings 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 thoughts from Franz Kafka

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. 115 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 sayings from Elias Canetti

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. 27 views from Dave Barry

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. 115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. 8 more quotes from Raymond Chandler

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. 4 quotes from Emmet Fox

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. 22 sayings 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 sayings from Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. 2 other quotes from Ivan Pavlov

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. 15 quotes from Cyril Connolly

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. 4 other wisdom & wit from Truman Capote

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

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. 6 thoughts from Sarah Bernhardt

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes. 15 more views from Desiderius Erasmus

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it. 5 other quotes from Ray Kroc

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. 3 sayings from P. G. Wodehouse

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

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 views from Leigh Hunt

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. 4 quotes from A. J. Liebling

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. 4 quotes from Dorothy Day

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. 7 more sayings 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

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 sayings from Mark Twain

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. 19 other quotes 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 quotes from Friedrich Schiller

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. 26 more views from Emily Dickinson

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food. 17 other sayings from Sammy Davis, Jr.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. 14 wisdom & wit from James Thurber

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Beware the hobby that eats. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. 24 views from W. C. Fields

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. 26 more sayings from E. M. Forster

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. 4 quotes from Barbara Tuchman

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing. 8 wisdom & wit from Ernest Holmes

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. 37 sayings from Edmund Burke

One should eat to live, not live to eat. 15 more sayings from Moliere

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. 29 more quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise. 2 other quotes from Hans Selye

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. 24 sayings 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 thoughts from Quintilian

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. 5 more views from J. R. R. Tolkien

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

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. 10 thoughts from Peter De Vries

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

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

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. 10 more quotes from Peter De Vries

Never order food in excess of your body weight. 33 other wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. 10 other quotes 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 quotes from James A. Michener

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

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. 33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck

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