There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

William Shakespeare

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

William Shakespeare

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.

Epictetus

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

Emmet Fox

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Adelle Davis

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.

Erma Bombeck

I just hate health food.

Julia Child

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Julia Child

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Diana Vreeland

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl S. Buck

Where do you go to get anorexia?

Shelly Winters

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests.

Danish Proverb

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

John Corry

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

Sefer Hasidim

Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of those pieces.

Judith Viorst

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.

Kelly Barton

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we have meat, and we can eat - And let the Lord be thanked.

Robert Burns

A brave man who climbs trees is food for their roots.

Maori Proverb

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzine

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.

Adam Scott

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

Man is what he eats.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.

Tom Wilson

Christmas itself may be called into question, If carried so far it creates indigestion.

Ralph Bergengren

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

Jay Leno

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

Cameron Diaz

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

Bryan Miller

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.

Joyce Carol Oates

I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you're alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment's redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.

Waiter Rant

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

Alan King

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

Cyra McFadden

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

Calvin Trillin

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Joyce Carol Oates

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Henry Bromel

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Lucretius

There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

Sean Stewart

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

John Cage

I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him.

Pat Schroeder

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

Mitch Hedberg

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

Bryan Miller

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

Margaret Halsey

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Mark Twain

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Anthelme Brillat Savarin

Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

Raymond Sokolov

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Totie Fields

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

John Dos Passos

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.

John Keats

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

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Elias Canetti

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

Dolly Parton

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead.

Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

Only opportunity for people our age is the fast-food [places] or the Army.

Deshay Woods

The important thing is that they're alive. The electricity came back on but the one thing they said they don't have is food.

Reggie Myles

Airlines have already cut the services they can cut, now cuts will have to come from somewhere else. The food is already nonexistent.

Michael Boyd

I like the atmosphere, the food and the beer. The location is perfect, very easy to get to.

Arun Das

The clinical evidence is that she is dying. Her body is wasting away, she cannot process food and she is suffering.

Norman Ford

We supply food and medication to our customers, and thought that duty was greater.

Diana Medina

They really worry about the future ... because they don't have any shelter, any food. I think they have a very bad future.

Abdul Rahim

We are asking for donations for food and clothing, and volunteers to help us sort through the donations.

Sam Walker

The Red Cross gave us $550 for clothes and $135 for food right away. I was surprised. I didn't expect that at all.

Cathy Hancock

For every $1 donated, we can get $10 worth of food, and for every $1, we can feed 5.5 meals.

Lisa Kemper

With WIC, they will be able to go to a store and immediately cash in, but food stamps will have to be applied for and there should be a day wait expected.

Sherri Plumlee

To me, Italian food is the best as far as having different types of cuisine.

Tom Perkins

God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

It is a message. We are not interested in removing the sales tax on food.

Sen. Gregory Bell

We're only able to look at getting food to the accessible pockets.

Jerry Bailey

The decisions are being fed up the food chain; they're not going to come back and bite you.

Brad Shimmin

His dad comes over. They're here a lot, they cookout and stuff. They always bring me food.

Judy Crist

It's sort of a challenge to get food to people who can't find a way to eat.

Beth Swenson

The food here is good, and the atmosphere is good. We want to make kids feel at home as well as adults.

Jody Vickers

Anton is such a fun artist, because his paintings are all about food, wine and sommeliers.

Paul Ferzacca

I've come to hear the candidates speak and have some fun and food too.

Julia Phillips

It's not even enough. The fact is that we know there are people out there we can't get food to.

John Morrill

If I was going to have a day care, I couldn't give those kids unhealthy food.

Guadalupe Moran

I'm not buying as much food as I used to. I am trying to clean out my cupboards more than I ever used to.

Jennifer Young

We think she grabbed a piece of food and choked on it.

Doug Sharp

Keep your food to a half cup serving.

Susan Mann

My baby could be killed down there. If they don't get her some food, she could starve.

Mary Wilson Little

The adults will actually use the youngsters as a food source. They're cannibalistic.

Ray Owczarzak

It's food for the gods. For us, it's different food from everywhere in the world.

Victor Velasco

This would certainly be a nice place to put either food and or some beverages here because you have guests hanging out here in front of the fire or TV.

Sonya Jennings

An eating disorder is defined as a psychological problem where one has disturbances with food and how they view their body and weight.

Heather Fisher

We never imagined we'd be peddling our wares for food money at the age of 30.

Tamara Draut

Finesse of someone who creates food for a living.

Doug Hughes

It's not that you can't find it (food and supplies), but it's more of a treasure hunt then it used to be.

Sandy Richardson

I don't think she took one bite of food.

Pat Mozdzen

There's the food, the drama, and the music. And there's a major sexiness to New Orleans.

Mark Stern

It was a slight change for me, because I've worked mostly in the food business.

Anne Borchers

They're not going to come if I sell (cheaper food).

Stephanie Deamicis

We decided to give them money so they can buy the food themselves.

Mamadou Baro

Even if people stay [in camps] after the end of the year, the food distributions stay cut. The funding is finished, donors have been very clear.

David Baduel

We want the customer to always get a lot of food for a little money.

Linda Allen

Baking is fundamental to the Jewish culture. Every holiday has its own food.

Harriet Davidson

It's really an American food.

Wendy Boersema

All the food we had, we either had to cook it up fast or give it away.

James Jackson

Sometimes she tolerates food, some times she doesn't.

Jenn Davis

The consumers' trust has been eroded and the EU must restore public confidence in its food science and controls.

David Byrne

It helps us understand what pi is, not just food.

Robert Toth

There is nothing better for your baby than making your own fresh baby food, and it is cheaper than buying the commercial variety.

Annabel Karmel

I couldn't get any food that day.

Joseph Wright

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

Charlie Trotter

Society is seduced by beauty but food must have a soul, too.

Carme Ruscalleda

We've been criticized that all we're doing is throwing food at the problem.

John Morrill

As a society, we have become completely disconnected from where our food comes from. Prince Charles acknowledges and understands and embraces sustainable agriculture.

Helge Hellberg

Many people died from no water and no food.

Atem Aleu

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

This is what happens when you don't have regular food distribution.

Paul Rees

We opened this food bank three weeks before the hurricane hit.

Christina Smith

There is a direct need here as well. We received dozens of calls from evacuees who need immediate food assistance.

Jaynee Day

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Proverb

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother's.

Andrei Codrescu

It doesn't matter who you are, food selection is the issue.

David Nieman

Absolutely. I'm going to have a cocktail party, food, drink ? it's going to be full blown.

John Cumisky

Everybody wants to show him off, but I don't do that, ... If he wants to lay there, I make sure he has cable to watch and food to eat.

Greg Oden

Bears are opportunist animals, they take food at the easiest place to get it.

Marko Jonozovic

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

Arthur Baer

This is more meaty on the palate, richer, and can stand up to some food.

Joe Scalice

Our aim is to offer simple, fresh, good food.

Lexi Showell

Right now, we're encouraging people to be here - this is where we have security, water, food.

Nellie Kelly

At first, I was looking for any business that pertains to food.

Anna Levien

It's everything from food service to school bus routes.

Michael Shook

With another food service it's not as easy to fit in their schedule, but now we can fit it into our schedule.

John Leach

There's a lot more food available in the Midwest because they're doing no-till corn farming.

Andrew James

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

Charles Baudelaire

There is a food fight going on there in the Executive Branch, I am sure.

Frank Dunham

The food at my restaurants is mostly the food of Italy's grandmothers.

Mario Batali

There are definitely a lot of gators here, ... The more freshwater a marsh has, then the more alligators you will find there because food will be more abundant.

Chester Moore

By the end of the day [Friday, Sept. 1] we had clothes and food.

Colleen Alatalo

We can do food aid. We can do job creation. But taking over a health ministry is not something that we're equipped to do.

David Shearer

Look, these people are not street-level dealers. This is not the bottom of the food chain.

David Yost

I don't think it'll make that much of a difference, I shop at Food City also.

Jean Grant

We're also hoping to have food vendors at the civic center prior to the parade.

Mary Dickson

For millions of people, this was their source of food.

Peter Kessler

There's a local food system that you can be aware of.

Rachel Cusick

As of Jan. 1, any packaged food that does not have trans fatty acid labeling should not be sold.

Alice Lichtenstein

We're not into a critical time yet as far as food sources for bears if we still get some moisture in May.

Michael Seraphin

They know food and wine. And they said we had some of the best products there. For them to say that was really something.

Carol Cohee

It's great to see each community - the people that live there and the authors who write about it. And the food.

Scott Crosby

As a food chemist, he had a real aversion to canned food because of the fear of botulism. Freezing had a lot of advantages.

Rich Maher

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

The food and the plating will be pretty meticulous, ... It's one of those things where no expense is spared.

David Bridges

It wasn't long before the first Black Hawk stopped down there and downloaded some food and water.

Shirley Lott

One of the best ways to introduce children to food is by involving them in the making of it.

Sergio Meza

We are staying away from food, especially fast food, because of the obesity problems in the schools.

Daniel Shearer

We wheel and deal for food. I can't believe we have to do this in America.

Melinda Shiraki

I haven't bought food since I was 17.

Adam Weissman

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Ted Nugent

(Morris) had a food stamp card. He was on his way to Wal-Mart to get himself something to eat.

Regina Anderson

Being in the food business, you have to remember to do each and every thing right, every time.

Truett Cathy

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

Ted Allen

There has been a lot of dog fighting down there they have to roam around and look for food. They have probably been getting in fights over the little bit of food.

Ann Sanders

It can catch food on its own.

Shannon Saunders

1,200 calories a day is the lowest you should go on food intake.

Denis Medeiros

We can only take non-perishable food.

Joseph Reed

The government will ensure that no food meant for hungry people is diverted.

Alfred Mutua

There are going to be (food) pantries empty and we're going to have to refill those pantries.

Ray Salazar

The challenge for any new network from Eye on People to the Food channel is to continue to get broad-based distribution.

Christopher Dixon

The key is not to have anyone bored with it. It really is restaurant-quality food.

Tom Welton

Food simply isn't important to me.

Alice Paul

Food coloring is the best toy ever.

Jason Kotecki

We got our Kroger card ... our Food Lion card and we've been to Wal-Mart.

Joel Mcgrath

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

Dr. Hans Selye

There will be tons of food.

Patricia Devlin

The bottom has fallen out of the coastal food chain, and there's just not enough food out there.

Julia Parrish

For some of these folks, This is the difference between having food on the table or not!

Kathleen Gmeiner

I want to be able to have the choice to eat the most nourishing food I can find for me and my family. ? I'll do anything that I have to to get that food.

Susan Warner

One big goal is to feed kids better and teach them where food comes from.

Scott Murray

The goal is to create an experience of learning about cultures through different demonstrations, food, art, music and history.

Keith Wilder

We need food, fuel, medicine and schools.

Abdul Haq

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

Thomas Keller