top of page
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

Standard 
 Customized
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

Exlpore more Food quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

Explore more quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?"
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"Man is to man either a god or a wolf."
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders."
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"No one respects a talent that is concealed."
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
Quote_1.png
Desiderius Erasmus
"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them."
bottom of page