It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.Adam Smith
Food Quotes
These 18 quotes on food come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.Nadine Gordimer
Our country produces enough to feed us all. Alas, for lack of organization, we are forced to beg for food aid.Thomas Sankara
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.Eduardo Galeano
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou.Omar Khayyam
One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
I would rather eat a meal without meat than live in a house without bamboo.Su Shi
Talk doesn't cook rice.Chinese proverb
Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!John Pierrakos
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.Robert Fulghum
To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.William Londen
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.Deepak Chopra
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair, and I eat men like air.Sylvia Plath
I am a labourer. The day I do not labour, I have no right to eat.Munshi Premchand
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.Steve Jobs
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the…John D. Rockefeller
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.Sachin Tendulkar
Hunger makes thief of any man.Pearl S. Buck