I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. 3 wisdom & wit from Virgil Thomson
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. 19 other quotes from Jonathan Swift
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. 98 thoughts from Mark Twain
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. 4 quotes from Dorothy Day
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
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. 7 sayings from Joseph Wood Krutch
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food. 17 views 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 thoughts from Samuel Butler
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. 26 wisdom & wit from Emily Dickinson
The most dangerous food is wedding cake. 14 quotes from James Thurber
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. 4 more views from Barbara Tuchman
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing. 8 other quotes from Ernest Holmes
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
Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. 12 more views from Quintilian
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise. 2 more views from Hans Selye
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. 29 more quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. 24 thoughts from W. C. Fields
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. 24 other quotes from W. C. Fields
One should eat to live, not live to eat. 15 sayings from Moliere
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke
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 thoughts from W. C. Fields
Beware the hobby that eats. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. 26 more thoughts from E. M. Forster
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
Never order food in excess of your body weight. 33 views 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
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. 7 views from Walter Bagehot
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. 33 more wisdom & wit 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
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. 10 more sayings from Peter De Vries
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. 10 quotes from Peter De Vries
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. 12 other thoughts from John Barrymore
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. 4 sayings from Thomas Malthus
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. 33 more views 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 views 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 other quotes from James Madison
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. 6 other quotes from Luther Burbank
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. 7 other quotes from Gloria Swanson
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? 5 quotes from Nikita Khrushchev
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. 38 views from William Hazlitt
If music be the food of love, play on. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. 25 other views from Charles Baudelaire
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. 4 views from Giacomo Casanova
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. 7 more thoughts 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
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. 9 other sayings from Margaret Fuller
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 thoughts from Paul Lynde
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. 115 more sayings from George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. 12 sayings from Franz Kafka
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. 2 other wisdom & wit from M. F. K. Fisher
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. 2 other quotes from M. F. K. Fisher
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. 115 more sayings from George Bernard Shaw
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. 2 other sayings from Shmuel Y. Agnon
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. 27 sayings from Dave Barry
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 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. 3 more views from Finley Peter Dunne
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
If food were free, why work? 16 more views from Douglas Horton
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. 4 views 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 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 other thoughts 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 other quotes from Alan Ladd
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. 4 more wisdom & wit from Truman Capote
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. 15 quotes from Cyril Connolly
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands. 2 other thoughts from Ivan Pavlov
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. 8 other quotes from Lewis Mumford
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. 3 views from P. G. Wodehouse
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. 6 quotes from Leigh Hunt
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. 100 more views from Oscar Wilde
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
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it. 5 more thoughts 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
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. 4 views from A. J. Liebling
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. 6 wisdom & wit from Sarah Bernhardt