Savor the Flavor: Inspiring Quotes About Food

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

Lucretius, Poet

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"

Woody Allen, Director

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

Woody Allen, Director

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Food is not just fuel, it's information. It talks to your DNA and tells it what to do"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage"

Woody Allen, Director

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

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

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food"

David Byrne, Musician

"It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body"

Pat Buchanan, Journalist

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Food is so much more than just sustenance. It's about culture, history, and connection"

Gail Simmons, Author

"Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food"

John Bachman, Clergyman

"Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it"

Henry Hampton, Activist

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"If music be the food of love, play on"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul"

Plato, Philosopher

"Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order"

Dolly Parton, Musician

"I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

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