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This is a list of food quotes
After a good dinner
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Oscar Wilde
Beware
BiofuelsIf 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
Eating well in England
Food and fireA house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
Food and medicineLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
Food in your mouthSo long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka
Food of love
Food of the soulAnd what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
Hunger and GodThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi
Ice-creamIce-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire
If one has not dined wellOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
Ill cook
InnovationsInnovations 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
Killing animals for foodA 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
My foodI want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
My friends
Not necessity, not desireNot 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
Our own foodWe should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
Bill Gates
Secret of successPart of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
Sincerer love
The habit of eatingStatistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
Tinned foodWe may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell
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