882 private quotes tagged food

“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

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“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“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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“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

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“It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.” — Tom Sizemore

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“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.” — Bill Gates

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

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“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.” — Johnny Carson

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“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

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

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

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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

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

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“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.” — Mitch Hedberg

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“Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.” — Bill Gates

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

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“On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.” — George Mikes

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

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“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” — Samuel Butler

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“Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.” — Mason Cooley

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“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.” — Ronald Reagan

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“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

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“Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.” — Jack Welch

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