“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
Quotes about food
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“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.”
“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
“You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.”
“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
“We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”
“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”
“Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.”
“We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.”
“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.”
“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”
“The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.”
“The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.”
“On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.”
“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”