Food For Thought

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Fine words do not produce food. - Nigeria Proverb

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Laughter is brightest where food is best. - Irish Proverb

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake. - Larry Hagman

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. - Mike Myers

If you are looking for a fly in your food, it means that you are full. - South Africa Proverb

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. - James Beard

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. - Benjamin Franklin

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food. - W.O. Atwater

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick - not wounded - dead. - Woody Allen

Your food is close to your stomach, but you must put it in your mouth first. - African Saying

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. - Ethel Merman

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. - George Mikes

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

This is a Jewish cake - they give this to a Jewish kid before he gets circumscribed. - Archie Bunker

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. - Jim Davis

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again. - George Miller

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. - Garrison Keillor

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?" - Steven Wright

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt