But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain, Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.7, l.126^30.

Quand il y a a'   manger pour huit, il y en a bien pour dix. When there is enough food foreight, there is enough for ten.

-Molie'  re,Jean Baptiste Poquelin
  L'Avare, act 3, sc.1.

Je vis de bonne soupe, et non de beau langage. It's good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

-Molie'  re,Jean Baptiste Poquelin
  Les femmes savantes, act 2, sc.7.

Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money.

-Myles na Gopaleen
   Title of poetry collection.

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed 'only two dramatic featuresöthe wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.'

-Powell, Anthony Dymoke
  TheAcceptanceWorld, ch.4.

It isnot to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant.It varies at different times in thesame countryand very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.

-Ricardo, David
  Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

In every case, agricultural as well as manufacturing profits are lowered bya rise in the price of raw produce, if it be accompanied bya rise of wages_ The natural tendency of profits istofall; for inthe progress of society and wealth, the additional quantity of food required is obtained by the sacrifice of more and more labour.

-Ricardo, David
  Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

-Rockefeller, David
  In Merchants and Masterpieces,WETA TV broadcast, 31 Dec.

The things people had once held against her† unconventional beauty†un-American elegance, the taste for French clothes and French foodöwere suddenly no longer liabilities but assets.

-Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier),Jr
  OnJacqueline Kennedy's post-election image. AThousand Days.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  JohnTanner to Octavius Robinson. Man and Superman, act1.

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poet's food is love and game.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'An Exhortation'.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my Acquaintance in London; that a young healthy Child, well nursed, is, at aYearold, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome Food; whether Stewed,Roasted,Baked, or Boiled; and,I make no doubt, that it will equally serve in a Fricassee, or a Ragout.

-Swift,Jonathan
  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?

-Toole,John Kennedy
A Confederacy of Dunces (published1980), ch.7, pt.1.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

-Tuchman, BarbaraW(ertheim)
Practising History,'The Houses of Research'.

Weary men, what reap ye?öGolden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?öHuman corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldiersöwhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were deadö Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.

-Wilde,Jane Francesca ne¤  e Elgee
'The FamineYear'.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of medical thought.

-Plum
  The InimitableJeeves, ch.16.

Now, in this blank of things, a harmony, Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal That grief for which the senses still supply Fresh food.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Calm is all nature as a resting wheel',1.7^10. Published in the Morning Post,13 Feb.1802.