M. F. K. Fisher Quotes


"Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring."
- M. F. K. Fisher
(Related: Fun)

"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
- M. F. K. Fisher
(Related: People, June, Moon, Wine)

"War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist."
- M. F. K. Fisher
(Related: War, Business, Ability, Proof)

"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."
- M. F. K. Fisher
(Related: World)

"I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed."
- M. F. K. Fisher
(Related: Life, Living, Thinking, Wine)

"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
- M. F. K. Fisher
"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly."
- M. F. K. Fisher
(Related: Food, Act, Being, Sharing)