Food Quotes - page 2

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. (Ambrose Bierce)
On the Continent people have good food; in England, people have good table manners. View quote
George Mikes
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. View quote
Anthony Burgess
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. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
W. C. Fields
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. View quote
Mark Twain
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. View quote
Robert Orben
Health food makes me sick. (Calvin Trillin)
While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. View quote
Ned Vizzini
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything. View quote
Pierre Dukan
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. View quote
Peter De Vries
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressly for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. View quote
Philip Kapleau
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him. View quote
Helen Fielding
I get way too much happiness from good food. View quote
Elizabeth Olsen
In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice! View quote
Curtis Stone
There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry. View quote
Curtis Stone
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. (Elizabeth Berkley)
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. View quote
Cicero
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