He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms104:14^15.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 6:7^8.

   Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. Food comes first, then morals.

-Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich
  Die Dreigroschenoper ('The Threepenny Opera'), act 2, sc.3 (translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett,1970).

Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.

-Coupland, Douglas
Generation X,'QuitYour Job'.

'Twonations; betweenwhomthere isnointercourseand no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed bya different breeding, are fed by a different 276 food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.' 'You speak ofö'said Egremont, hesitatingly.'THE RICH ANDTHE POOR.'

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Sybil, bk.2, ch.5.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

-Dobson, (Henry) Austin
  'Fame is a Fool'.

But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

-Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)
  The Ginger Man, ch.5.

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and bloodö Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. 308

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.4.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

-Fisher, M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy)
  An  Alphabet for Gourmets,'A Is for Dining  Alone'.

In Americawe eat, collectively, withaglumurgefor food to fill us.We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.

-Fisher, M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy)
  The Art of Eating.

God knows that the lesson we learn from life is that our very existence in the nature of things is a perpetual harming of somebody elseöif only because every mouthful of food that we eat is a mouthful taken from somebody else.

-Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer
Ancient Lights, dedication.

   The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms! Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By its Author!

-Franklin, Benjamin
  Proposed epitaph for himself.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

-Gass,William H(oward)
  Interview in Paris Review, Summer.

Gula carum tributem exigit, sed vilissimum reddit, quia quanto sunt delicaciora cibavia, tanto fetidiora sunt stercora. Gluttony demands a heavy tribute but gives the basest returns: the more delicate the food, the more reeking the dung.

-Pope Innocent III originally Lotario de' Conti di Segni
  De Miseraria Condicionis Humanae, bk.2, ch.20.

You Americans donot rearchildren, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause.

-Jarrell, Randall
  Pictures from an Institution, pt.4, ch.10.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned† A man in a jail has moreroom, better food, and commonly bettercompany.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,16 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

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

-Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)
Social Studies,'Fran Lebowitz's Travel Hints'.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

-Munston,Lady Peel
  Fatal Curiosity, act1, sc.2.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

-Malthus,Thomas Robert
  An Essay on the Principle of Population.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

-Mikes, George
  How to Be an  Alien.