Food Quotes

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food"

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

"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world"

Cicero, Philosopher

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

Cicero, Philosopher

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

Plato, Philosopher

"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed"

Ronald Reagan, President

"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available"

Ronald Reagan, President

"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

"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

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

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

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

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind"

George Will, Journalist

"I've always preferred food be on the blander side"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

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

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?"

Doug Coupland, Author

"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"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

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

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education"

John Ruskin, Writer

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

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"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

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

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"If you're going to America, bring your own food"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"The most dangerous food is wedding cake"

James Thurber, Comedian

"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself"

Tecumseh, Leader

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says"

George Crook, Soldier

"When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

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