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David Grayson

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

Bible

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.N.B.: Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 12:19

Woody Allen

Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.

Steven Wright

Every day, the hummingbird eats its own weight in food. You maywonder how it weighs the food. It doesn't. It just eatsanother hummingbird.

Barbara Hall

Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight.

Lucretius

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Erma Bombeck

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.

Albert Einstein

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Jerry Seinfeld

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Linda Wells

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.

Dorothy Gilman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Desiderius Erasmus

When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food.

American Indian Proverb

Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food.

Assyrian Proverb

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Ronald Reagan

It's difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.(1986)

Cathy Guisewite

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Peter J. Davies

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's.

Steven Wright

I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?"

CRABBE: _The Borough,_ Letter xxiv.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

SWIFT: _Cadenus and Vanessa,_ Line 755.

'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.

DRYDEN: _Medal,_ Line 235.

What can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

Julia Child

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

W. Somerset Maugham

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Jane Austen

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jim Rohn

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Alex Levine

Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat.

W. H. Auden

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Dixie Lee Ray

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Luigi Barzini

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Steven Wright

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

Steven Wright

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a bigbuffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about whatkind of food you want, and the table would move across the floorto it.

Blade

Dr. Karen Jenson Vampires like you aren't a species, you're just infected, a virus, a sexually transmitted disease. Frost I'll tell you what we are, sister. We're the top of the f***ing food chain.

LANSDOWNE: _On Death._

One destin'd period men in common have, The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, All food alike for worms, companions in the grave.

Arne Garborg

It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfu

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 126.

Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly.

Robert Martin Fuoss

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.

Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead.

Charles E. Wilson

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

J. P. Donleavy

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.

EBENEZER ELLIOTT: _Corn Law Hymns._

To fall'n humanity our Father said, That food and bliss should not be found unsought; That man should labor for his daily bread; But not that man should toil and sweat for nought.

Art Buchwald

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the

Nikola Tesla

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Margaret Mead

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

George Will

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 4.

Will fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? She either gives a stomach, and no food,-- Such as are the poor in health; or else a feast, And takes away the stomach,--such are the rich, That have abundanc

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

"More food. Hide the pain. More food." -- Mike Nelson

"Beavis is not dog food! .. huh uh huh He's worm food!" - Butthead

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

"Fish food! Vinnie wants to turn me into fish food!" -- Sam

If it screams it's not food......yet. <>

Pizza IS the four food groups!

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Conversation is food for the soul.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Success is acheiving the top of the food chain.

Chocolate: the OTHER major food group.

If it screams it's not food......yet. [[Evil Grin]]

I don't eat snails... I prefer FAST food!

Health food makes me sick.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

"Yeah, they can take a Pot Noodle and turn it into food!

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

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.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

I played Deal-A-Meal poker with my friends and won all their food.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

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

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

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.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

"Bother," said Pooh, pouring ipecac into the relief food supplies.

"Alive" rated four stars by Jeffery Dahmer, food critic.

"Bother," said Pooh, as he poured ipecac into the relief food supplies.

"Thank you, please drive through" -- Anon, used by Fast Food Clerks worldwide

"He calls it comfort food." Neelix on Paris' PBJ sandwiches