Brainy quotes

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

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

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

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
Ronald Reagan

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney Dangerfield

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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

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

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen 

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen 

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson 

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Andy Rooney 

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz 

If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz 

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein 

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James Madison 

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead 

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
Dolly Parton 

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
Johnny Depp 

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw 

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw 

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner 

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
William Faulkner 

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand Russell 

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin