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

food

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

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

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. 25 more views 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 quotes from Nikita Khrushchev

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 views from Kate Smith

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

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

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

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! 8 other quotes 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

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

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

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. 6 wisdom & wit from Elias Canetti

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

If food were free, why work? 16 more wisdom & wit from Douglas Horton

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 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 other thoughts from Franz Kafka

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. 2 sayings 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 thoughts from Truman Capote

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 more thoughts from Alan Ladd

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. 8 more views from Lewis Mumford

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

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

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

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

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

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. 6 other quotes from Leigh Hunt

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. 6 quotes from Bela Lugosi

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair. 29 more quotes from Friedrich Schiller

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

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. 19 more quotes from Jonathan Swift

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. 4 other wisdom & wit from Dorothy Day

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. 26 wisdom & wit from Emily Dickinson

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

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

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. 14 other quotes from James Thurber

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. 24 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

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

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

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

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

Beware the hobby that eats. 96 more thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

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

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 thoughts 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

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

Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. 12 more quotes from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

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

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. 24 views from W. C. Fields

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. 4 wisdom & wit from James A. Michener

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

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

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

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. 10 other wisdom & wit from Peter De Vries

Never order food in excess of your body weight. 33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck

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

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

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. 7 quotes from Walter Bagehot

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 sayings from Eva Gabor

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. 33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck

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

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. 7 other quotes 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 sayings from Cesar Chavez