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When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.

Zambian Proverb

The soul of man is nourished by learning, as the body is by food.

Bartholomew of San Concordio

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

George Santayana

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

M. F. K. Fisher

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

Lucretius

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Cyra McFadden

If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture.

Audrey Foris

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

Bill Gates

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

Edmund Burke

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests

Danish Proverb

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.

Thomas Paine

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

Joseph Butler

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Robert Orben

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

Woody Allen

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

Bill Bryson

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

George Carlin

Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

Robert Herrick

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

David Duchovny

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

John Owen

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