Quotes
Quotes about Food
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
I almost die for food, and let me have it!
Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to tithing, and stock-punished and imprisoned; who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, Horse to ride, and weapon to wear, But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.
When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again Within a hour; and pacing through the forest, Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, Lo, what befell!
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose.
'Tis 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.
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem, potionis sitim.]
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. . . . . Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beastsâwho merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and cavesâwas a civilizing triumph.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.
