“There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” – James Beard

“How can a nation be great if their bread tastes like kleenex?” – Julia Childs

“‘A loaf of bread,’ the Walrus said, ‘is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides are very good indeed.'” – Lewis Caroll

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.” – Robert Browning

“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.” – M.F.K. Fischer

“With bread all sorrows are less” – Sancho Panza speaking to Dapple, his ass in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

“Give me yesterday’s Bread, this Day’s Flesh, and last Year’s Cider.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.” – Pablo Neruda

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatama Gandhi

“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread. Without it, it’s flat.” – Carmen McRae

“If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.” – Jose Marti”

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.” – Bill Cosby

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” – Richard Wright

“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.” – Omar Khayyam

“Acorns were good until bread was found.” – Francis Bacon

“Without bread all is misery.” – William Cobbett, British journalist

“Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.” – Nikoli Berdyaev

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” – Mother Teresa

“Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on.” – Ambrose Bierce

“The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the coat that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.” – St. Basil

“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.” – Louis Bromfield, American novelist (1896-1956)

“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Bachelor’s fare: Bread, cheese, and kisses.” – Jonathan Swift

“I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it — after all, they’ve already given us tasteless bread.” – Robert Orben

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.” – John C Maxwell, American author

“I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.” Actor Burt Lancaster

“For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.” Steve Albini the singer-songwriter

“Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.” Egyptian Proverb

“Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.” Hungarian Proverb

“With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree.” Russian Proverb

“Avoid those who don’t like bread and children.” Swiss Proverb