Good Food Good Company Quotes:

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

- Jane Austen

topic: Clever, Ideas, People, Smart People, Anne Elliot

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

- E. B. White

topic: Book, People, Alive, Happy Times, Libraries And Librarians

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

- Michael Broadbent

source: Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Drinking, Wine, Good Company, Vineyards, Best Wine

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

- Doug Larson

topic: Food, Vegetables, Green, Spiritual Health, I Love Food

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

- Mark Twain

topic: Alcohol, Too Much, Whiskey, Scotch Whisky, Whisky

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Book, Longing, Good Company, Good Food Good Company

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Wine, Soul, Body, Food And Wine, Witty Wine

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

- E. B. White

topic: Encouragement, Book, People, Happy Times, Library Books

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

- Izaak Walton

source: Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”

topic: Journey, Way, Good Company, Good Food Good Company

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, People, Welcome, Wine Making, Good Wine

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

- Charles Evans Hughes

source: "Ethics and Citizenship". Book by John Walter Wayland, p. 208, 1924.

topic: Inspirational, Men, Good Company, Integrity And Character, Integrity Character

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

- Francis Picabia

topic: Taste, Tire, Good Company, Good Taste, Good Food Good Company

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Wine, Used, Familiar, Vineyards, Wine And Friends

Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.

- Sathya Sai Baba

source: FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 23, 2015

topic: Important, Quality, Helping, Good Food Good Company

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

source: "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections" by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, 1750.

topic: Life, Way, Good Company, Good Food Good Company

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

- George Wald

topic: Molecules, Good Company, Company, Good Food Good Company

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

- Izaak Walton

topic: Family, Empathy, Understanding, Vice And Virtue, Good Food Good Company

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Feelings, Good Company, Smallness, Good Food Good Company

A bottle of wine was good company.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Wine, Bottles, Good Company, Sun Also Rises, Good Food Good Company

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.

- George Herbert

topic: Numbers, Good Company, Company, Good Food Good Company

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

- William Lyon Phelps

topic: Love, Happiness, Music, Good Conversation, Good Food Good Company

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

- John Locke

source: "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Reading, Reflecting, Good Food Good Company

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Wine, Men, Giving, Vineyards, Wine And Age

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

- Eric Schlosser

topic: Food, Practice, Trying, Mislead, Food Industry

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Wine, Shining, Bottles, Wine Toast, Good Wine

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a movie whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

- Angela Bassett

topic: Scene, Good Company, De Niro, Brando, Good Food Good Company

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

- Peter O'Toole

topic: Men, And Love, Good Company, Gregarious, Good Food Good Company