And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 6:35.

   The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians11:23^6.

Women have no wideness in them Theyare provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.

-Bogan, Louise
  'Women'.

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.

-Burke, Edmund
  Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Nov (published1800).

The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown; Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.7,'The Lion and the Unicorn'.

El pan comido y la compan‹  |¤a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

-Cervantes, Miguel de
  Don Quixote, pt.2, ch.7.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen, it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  What's Wrong with the World, ch.3.

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verseöand Thou Beside me singing in the wildernessö And wilderness is paradise enow.

-Fitzgerald, Edward
  The Ruba¤  iya¤  t of Omar Khayya¤  m of Naishapur, stanza12. In the1879 edn this was changed to'A Book of  Verses underneath the Bough, /  A  Jug of  Wine, a loaf of Breadöand Thou / Beside me singing in the Wildernessö / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!'

La majestueuse e¤  galite¤   des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor tosleep under bridges, to beg inthestreets and to steal bread.

-Thibault
  Le Lys rouge.

I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls.

-of Bin Bin
My Brilliant Career, ch.38.

Wer nie sein Brot mitTr a« nen aÞ, Wer nie die kummervollen N a« chte, Auf seinem Bette weinen saÞ, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen M a« chte. Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow He knows ye not, ye heavenly powers.

-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von
^6  Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (translated by Carlyle in1824 as Wilhelm Meister's  Apprenticeship).

Cast yourbread uponthewaters,but wait until thetideis coming in to do it.

-Haggai,Thomas
  In Fortune,7 Nov.

Oh! God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

-Honorius of Autun
  'The Song of the Shirt'.

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

-James, Henry
^5  Theatricals, Second Series, preface.

Man lives by science as well as bread.

-James,William
  Vivisection.

I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ
On visiting Pittsburgh's Polish^Czech area. Quoted in  Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses. Time was when their plebiscite elected generals, Heads of State, commanders of legions: but now they've pulled intheir horns, there's only twothingsthatconcernthem: bread and games.

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Of the people of Rome. Satirae, no.10, l.78^81 (translated by Peter Green).'Panem et circenses' is sometimes translated as 'bread and circuses'.

I don't trust anybody who's never eaten bread with the salt of tears.

-Kaiko,Takeshi
  'The Laughing Stock', in Five Thousand Runaways (translated by Cecilia Segawa Seigle).

'Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?' 'We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter, Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs, apples and cheese.'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Big Steamers'.

All forms of government fall when it comes up to the question of breadöbread for the family, something to eat.Bread to a manwith a family comes firstöbefore his union, before his citizenship, before his church affiliation. Bread!

-Lewis,John L(lewellyn)
  In the Saturday Evening Post,12 Oct.