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Here we gathered the most important food quotes you can ever read. 

All kind of food quotes is in this article (funny, spiritual...)

Best food quotes on earth 

"Laughter breaks out best when the food is good."

Irish Proverb

"Man can never stop dreaming. Dreaming is the food of the soul as food is the food of the body."

Paulo Coelho / The Compostela Pilgrim

"What is food for one, is poison for another."

Paracelsus

"Love lives on starvation and dies on food."

Alfred de Musset

"The meaning of the kiss is: you are food for me."

m Henry de Montherlant

"The vine has been used for the nourishment of men and even for their clothing. "

Jean-Charles

"The best food is the one with the most calories."

Murphy's Law

"Gastronomy is the art of using food to create happiness."

Theodore Zeldin

"The bitterness of a fallen love is the favorite food of the bachelor."

Jean-Philippe Frossard

"Beauty is the food of the eye and the sorrow of the soul."

German Proverb

"No artifice in the kitchen to disguise a tasteless food."

Spanish Proverb

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not its food."

William Hazlitt / Lecture on English Comic Writers

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

Anonymous / 18th-century text

"Chocolate is, rather than nectar or ambrosia, the true food of the gods."

Joseph Bachelor

"Other foods are only food. But chocolate is chocolate."

Patrick Skene Catling

"The joys of the world are our only food. The last little drop keeps us alive.

Jean Giono / May my joy remain

"A man is also a stray dog in perpetual search of his food."

Ahmadou Kourouma / Waiting for the vote of the wild beasts

"Fantasies do not command sexual life, they are its food."

Henri Barte / Why men and women no longer get along

"Eat to eat what you eat, not to be devoured by your food."

Anonymous

"What is patriotism if not the love of the food of our childhood."

Lin Yutang

"Only he who is not hungry can judge the quality of food."

Alessandro Morandotti

"If God were to appear to the hungry, he would dare to appear to them only in the form of food."

Gandhi

"God said, "I divide in two, the rich will have food, the poor will have an appetite."

Coluche / Press Review - 1980

"Misguidance is a bird that abandons its nest in search of food without knowing how to return."

Anonymous

"Man is like a clock. He winds himself up by food two or three times a day."

Alphonse Karr

"Motivation is, for the mind, similar to food. A plate alone is not enough."

Peter J. Davies

"To substitute daydreaming for thought is to mistake a poison for food."

Victor Hugo / Les Misérables

Old food quotes by famous authors

⦁There is no truer love than the love of good food.

George Bernard Shaw

⦁Few die of hunger, but hundreds of thousands die of food.

Benjamin Franklin

⦁It is not because of the goodness of the butcher, brewer, or baker that we expect our food, but because of their self-interest.

Adam Smith

⦁God created the food, the devil the cooks.

James Joyce

⦁She looked at me with the eyes of a fish I would not like to eat.

Simon garmiggelt

⦁We don't live to eat, we eat to stay alive.

Socrates

⦁I would rather starve than never eat meat again.

Herman brusselmans 

⦁The animals are more tolerant than we are: a hungry pig will just eat a Muslim. - Pierre Desproges

⦁The Hindus, living in the desert, take a vow not to eat fish. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

⦁Society consists of two great classes: those who eat more than they are hungry, and those who are more hungry than they are hungry. - Nicolas Chamfort

⦁How can it be said that my life is not a success? Have I not had enough to eat for more than sixty years and managed to avoid being eaten myself? - Logan Pearsall Smith

⦁Why can't I just eat my waffle? - Barack Obama

⦁Sex is about as important as a cheese sandwich. But a cheese sandwich, when you have nothing to eat, is incredibly important. - Ian Dury

⦁Bad table manners only indicate that you care more about the food than the company. - Gelett Burgess

⦁Part of the secret to success in life is to eat what you're hungry for and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain

⦁True self-discipline is being able to pick strawberries without eating them. - Doug Larson

⦁If it weren't for women, we'd still be sitting in caves eating raw meat. All civilization has come to impress women. - Orson Welles

⦁The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. - Woody Allen

⦁Although the hunters, by constantly hunting and eating games, achieve nothing but become sedentary, they believe they are living the life of a prince. - Erasmus

⦁When I have little money, I buy books; then if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

⦁There are only two questions left that concern us: what do we eat today? And where do I leave my car? - Wim Kan

⦁Reading without thinking is like eating without digesting it. - Edmund Burke

⦁Those who wish to remain healthy must eat what they do not like, drink what they do not like, and do what they do not wish. - Martialis

⦁Democracy is the power of lice to eat lions. - Georges Clemenceau

⦁The happy life is not brought about by drinking parties and ceaseless feasting, nor by the enjoyment of boys and women, or the eating of fish or any other food that the richly provided table offers, but by sober thinking, which not only examines the grounds of every choice and avoidance but also exorcises the unfounded opinions through which the greatest possible unrest takes hold of our minds. - Epicurus

⦁How useful are fans? You can't eat their applause with your breakfast; you can't sleep with them. - Bob Dylan

⦁I have reached the age where food is more important than sex. That's why I put a mirror above the kitchen table. - Rodney Dangerfield

⦁There are a lot of people who need the table set in the usual way or they don't eat with pleasure. - Christopher Morley

⦁There are an awful lot of restaurants where you can eat Chinese. But it doesn't help. In fact, there are more coming. - Wiet van Broeckhoven

⦁It is a brave flea who dares to eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. - William Shakespeare

⦁Moderation with food promotes a healthy body, and moderation with people promotes peace of mind. - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

⦁The conversational urge is a human weakness; the movement of jaws and the production of more or less significant words, phrases, and perorations is a physical need as good as eating and sleeping. - Louis Couperus

⦁The world was soup and thinking mostly a fork: rarely led to tasty food. - Harry Mulisch

Think twice about those quotes 

"There are vulgar conceptions quite sufficient for practical life; they must even be the food of men. They are not, however, sufficient for intelligence."

Averroes / Physics

"Faced with food, the body cannot remain neutral; it is ready for all the madness, all the fantasies, and death can no longer do it any good."

Noëlle Châtelet / Le Corps-à-corps culinaire

"A house is not a home unless there is food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

Margaret Fuller

"Souls are like that. They would sell themselves to possess a body but have nothing more urgent to do than to leave at the slightest failure the one who has given them shelter and nourishment."

Hélène Ouvrard / Timeless Tales

"When the mother can no longer give her chick a peck, and the little one goes to look for food for her, it is because the natural order has been reversed."

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor / L'irrésolu

"Theater is food as indispensable to life as bread and wine... The theater is, therefore, in the first place, a public service. Just like gas, water, electricity."

Jean Vilar

"It happens to a man in life to err on a plate of food that is reserved for him, but never on the words that are intended for him."

Ahmadou Kourouma / Waiting for the Wild Beast Vote

"The starving masses demand only one poem: comfort food. It must not be given to them as alms. They must earn it by the sweat of their brow."

Gandhi / Young India

"There is in the staging of a good meal something other than the exercise of a worldly code; there lurks around the table a vague topic impulse: one looks (one watches?) on the other for the effects of the food."

Roland Barthes / Reading Brillat-Savarin

"It is by dint of hunting to obtain food that man has felt the urge to expand his territory so much that he has ended up making and sending rockets beyond the planet."

Bernard Werber / The Empire of Angels

"The events themselves are required as food. If there is not some great misfortune in the world this morning, we feel a certain emptiness. "There is nothing in the papers today," they say.

Paul Valéry / Variety

"If we leave to fight terrorism, it comes back to our door. What we need to do is fight against the reasons for terrorism: the feeling of inferiority, the lack of education, medicine, food, discrimination against women..."

Shimon Peres / Le Figaro - March 30, 2016

"Rice: three letters, as in the word wheat, but between these two fundamental foods, there is the distance of two groups of civilizations."

Michel Tournier / Petites Proses

"One of the proofs that the taste of meat is not natural to man is the indifference that children have for that dish and the preference that they all give to vegetable foods, such as dairy, pastry, fruit, etc."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Emile or Education

"The fear of ridicule obtains from us the worst cowardice."

André Gide / The New Foods

"Everything you don't know how to give possesses you."

André Gide / The New Foods

"Melancholy is only fervor that has fallen away."

André Gide / Les nourritures terrestres

"Stop believing and learn."

André Gide / The News

"The most precious part of ourselves is what remains unspoken."

André Gide / Les Nourritures terrestres

"To understand is to feel capable of doing. "

André Gide / Les nourritures terrestres

"Every animal is but a bundle of joy."

André Gide / The New Foods

"My mind stumbles at this word: consequence."

André Gide / The New Foods

⦁I hate television. I hate it like peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles

⦁I've given you everything; a poem, my monthly salary, and a child; now will you please check if dinner is ready? - A. Marja

⦁Unlike revenge, beauty is a dish to be eaten very hot. - Frédéric Dard

⦁You must eat to live and not live to eat. - Molière

⦁Love is being called Adam and not wanting to eat ribs. - Jef van Elst

⦁Somewhere dilettantism is more rampant than in politics. The bourgeois stops his pipe, after dinner, in his armchair and puffs out his cloud of smoke. - Elisabeth Zernike

Infallible diet: never eat while your wife is speaking. - Barbra Streisand

Our enlightened posterity will look back on us, we who eat cattle and sheep, the same way we look at cannibals. - William Winwood Reade

⦁Robots will harvest, cook and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars and walk our dogs. Whether you like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end. - Gray Scott

⦁Of a hundred educated and sensitive people, ninety would probably never eat meat again if they had to kill or stab the animal they were consuming themselves. - Bertha von Suttner

⦁Without wine we eat, with wine, we dine. - Scott Montgomery

⦁When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can drive in them, and more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way to get richer is to cut off those who don't have enough. - Nelson Algren

⦁Man is the only creature that can eat a hot meal while flying. - Loriot

⦁A traveler must have the back of a donkey to carry everything, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter everyone, the mouth of a pig to eat what is put before him, the ear of a merchant to hear everything and say nothing. - Thomas Nashe

⦁And money is not something to get mad at ... Money is for food and clothing and comfort and going to the movies. Money is for making the lives of children happy. - Alan Paton

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