Food Quotes

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

Henry Fielding

Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius! Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, Or titillate the palate of Silenus!

William Augustus Croffut

I don't like to eat snails. I prefer fast food.

Strange de Jim

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

Woody Allen

You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile.

Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country

David F. Houston

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important

David F. Houston

Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens

Sepal Felicivant

Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.

Gael Greene

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

Mark Twain

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise

Henry David Thoreau

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Lin Yutang

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.

Martin H. Fischer

I eat merely to put food out of my mind

N.F. Simpson

Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

Fran Lebowitz
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