Books Quote by Isaac Watts

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

— Andrew Carnegie

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

— Pope John XXIII

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough…

— A. J. Liebling

“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has…

— Michael Pollan

In our fast-food nation, we tend to think that the intellectual life, like everything else, can be had pre-chewed and in bulk just for…

— Norah Vincent

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books…

— Sydney Smith

A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback…

— Immanuel Kant

That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion.…

— Michael Pollan

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can…

— Robert Southey