Definition of “food”

Quotations

• "A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing" Samuel Johnson
• "We lived for days on nothing but food and water" W.C. Fields
• "Food first, then morality" Bertolt Brecht
• "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are" Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• "There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary" Henry David Thoreau
• "After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives" Oscar Wilde
• "There is no love sincerer than the love of food" George Bernard Shaw
• "Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly" M.F.K. Fisher
• "On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners" George Mikes
• "Stands the church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?" Rupert Brooke
• "Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy" Anthony Powell
• "The healsome porritch, chief of Scotia's food" Robert Burns
• "Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race!" Robert Burns
• "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did" William Butler (on the strawberry)
• "Mayonnaise: one of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion" Ambrose Bierce
• "Milk's leap towards immortality" Clifford Fadiman (of cheese)
• "Sauce: the one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven" Ambrose Bierce
• "[If the people have no bread] let them eat cake" Marie-Antoinette
• "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" Bible: St. Matthew
• "Half a loaf is better than no bread"
• "You cannot have your cake and eat it"
• "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander"
• "An apple a day keeps the doctor away"