Food Quotes

Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: They distract the mind from food!

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

Food is the first thing. Morals follow on.[Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.]

You can’t just eat food. You’ve got to talk about it, too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

When there is food for eight, there’s food for ten.[Quand il y a à manger pour huit, il y en a bien pour dix.]

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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

It was as if they would rather do the impossible, that is, stop my mouth with food—they did not do it, but they would have liked to do it—than endure my questions.[Also known as:]So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I live on good soup, and not by fine language.[Je vis de bonne soupe, et non de beau langage.]

He sows hurry and reaps indigestion.