Quotes
Quotes about Food
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better.
But mice and rats, and such small deer,
Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
Smiles from reason flow,
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
'T is an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
His food
Was glory, which was poison to his mind
And peril to his body.
Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep one from going nude.
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist
Give me food, but give me love first, then a cigarette.
You've heard of junk food. How about junk facts?
There arose those winning life between two wars, born out of one, doomed food for the other
Yesterday's hunger cannot be stilled with tomorrow's food
How can you sing if your mouth be filled with food? How shall your hand be raised in blessing if it is filled with gold?
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
