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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.
Food and Eating
Woody Allen

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Reason
Woody Allen

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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress
Walter Bagehot

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Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Poetry and Poets
Charles Baudelaire

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I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.
Control
Erma Bombeck

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Music
Christian Nevell Bovee

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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Appearance
Raymond Chandler

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Honor
Charles Caleb Colton

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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Solitude
Cyril Connolly

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Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.
Necessity
Sir Terence Conran

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Fame
Emily Dickinson

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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
Vegetarianism
Finley Peter Dunne

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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Books - Reading
Desiderius Erasmus

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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
Books - Reading
William Faulkner

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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Abstinence
W. C. Fields

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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
Food and Eating
M. F. K. Fisher

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Books - Reading
Margaret Fuller

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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
Food and Eating
John Kenneth Galbraith

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
Food and Eating
Mahatma Gandhi

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The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Men and Women
Charlotte P. Gillman

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Wit
William Hazlitt

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If food were free, why work?
Work
Doug Horton

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In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home.
Hospitals
Gerhard Kocher

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Food and Eating
Fran Lebowitz

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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Food and Eating
Fran Lebowitz

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun