top of page
"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Food quotes

"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."

"We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs..."

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."

"It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites."
Explore more quotes by Clifton Fadiman

"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."

"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."

"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."

"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."

"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
bottom of page