Quotes About Sustenance

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's Sugar Cake.

All sorrows are less with bread.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

Grub first, then ethics.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.