food

1.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

- Steven Wright

2.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

- Dickinson, Emily

3.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

4.

Good food ends with good talk.

- Geoffrey Neighor

5.

What we all want is inward rest; rest of heart and brain; the calm, strong, self-contained, self-denying character, which needs no stimulants, for it has no fits of depression; which needs no narcotics, for it has no fits of excitement; which needs no ascetic restraints, for it is strong enough to use God's gifts without abusing them; the character, in a word, which is truly temperate, not in drink and food merely, but in all desires, thoughts, and actions.

- Essays. 1873.

6.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

- Mccarthy, Mary

7.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

8.

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

- Fuller, Margaret

9.

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

- Charles Baudelaire

10.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

- Kohe, J. Martin

11.

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

- Jane Austen

12.

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

- Rohn, Jim

13.

You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

- Jeff Melvoin

14.

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.

- Greenville County (S.C.) Department of Social Services

15.

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

- Katharine Whitehorn

16.

That poet knew but little of either streams or hearts who wrote--
"Nor ever had the breeze of passion Stirred her heart's clear depths."
The lonely fisher, the lover of streams and living fountains, knows that when the stream stops it is turbid. The deep pools and still flats are always brown--always dark--the mud lies in them, the trout sleep in them. When they are clearest they are still tinged brown or gray with some foreign matter held in solution--the brown of selfish sensuality or the gray of morbid melancholy. But when they are free again! when they hurry over rock and weed and sparkling pebble-shallow, then they are clear! Then all the foreign matter, the defilement which earth pours into them, falls to the ground, and into them the trout work up for life and health and food; and through their swift yet yielding eddies--moulding themselves to every accident, yet separate and undefiled--shine up the delicate beauties of the subaqueous world, the Spirit-glories which we can only see in this life through the medium of another human soul, but which we can never see unless that soul is stirred by circumstance into passion and motion and action strong and swift. Only the streams which have undergone long and severe struggles from their very fountain-head have clear pools.

- MS. 1843.

17.

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

- Orben, Robert

18.

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

- Skinner, Cornelia Otis

19.

We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.

- Gary Taubes

20.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe