Food Quotations

Quotations  on Food

·        Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. -- Edmund Burke

·        Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. -- Mark Kurlansky

·        Food is an important part of a balanced diet. -- Fran Lebowitz

·        Food is our common ground, a universal experience. -- James Beard

·        Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? -- George C. Lichtenberg

·        Food should be enjoyed rather than endured. -- Steve Hamilton

·        God comes to the hungry in the form of food.   --Mahatma Gandhi

·        God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests. -- Danish Proverb

·        Good food ends with good talk. --Geoffrey Neighbor

·        I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient. -- Cyra McFadden

·        If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? -- Joyce Carol Oates

·        If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. -- Audrey Foris

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

·        If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. -- Sally Edwards

·        In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. -- Bill Gates

·        Laughter is brightest where food is best.   -- Irish Proverb

·        Never order food in excess of your body weight. -- Erma Bombeck

·        Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. -- M. F. K. Fisher

·        There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.  -- Mahatma Gandhi

·        There is no love sincerer than the love of food.  --   George Bernard Shaw

·        There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.  -- George Santayana

·        They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; they eat us hungrily, and when they are full, they belch us. -- William Shakespeare

·        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

·        What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. -- Lucretius