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Eat up this excellent collection of food quotes!

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
Adelle Davis

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf

Toots Shore’s restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
Yogi Berra

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well mitched they are as body and soul, living partners.
Andre Simon

I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some fries.’ The girl at the counter said, ‘Would you like some fries with that?
Jay Leno

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times – in water, in butter and in wine.
Polish proverb

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

It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
Julia Child

Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.
George Carlin

So hungry I could eat a horse.
Proverb

I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
Katherine Cebrian

God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
John Taylo

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
John Cage

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
Julia Child

If you’re happy, you eat. If you’re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It’s, you know, it’s addiction.
Barbara Cook

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
Robert Morley

Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.
Jo Brand

Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.
Jan Murray

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka

I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.
W.C. Fields

If you live on donuts, rest assured you will not do well.
Cdin

I got food poisoning today.  I don’t know when I’ll use it
Steven Wright

Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution.
Irwin Van Grove

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
Ambrose Bierce

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
Laiko Bahrs

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
Mark Twain

Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin

How can you eat anything with eyes?
Will Kellogg

It was a brave man that ate the first oyster.
Anon

Practice safe eating – always use condiments.
Anon

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

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
George Bush

No soldier can fight properly unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.
Duke of Marlborough

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madam Benoit

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
Eddie Izzard

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
Laurie Colwin

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
French proverb

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There’s no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
Barbara Johnson

Dinner, a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham

Laughter is brightest where food is best.
Irish Proverb

Always eat grapes downward – that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot.
Samuel Butler

Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I’m still hungry.
Mike Kalin

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham

I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.
Martha Harrison

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.
Charlie Trotte

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
Lucretius

Eggs Benedict is genius. Its eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.
Wylie Dufresne

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
Rudyard Kipling

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
Luciano Pavarotti

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
Chef Alain Ducasse

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.
Garrison Keillor

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.
Jay Rayner

You know how I feel about tacos. It’s the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile.
Earl Hickey, My Name is Earl

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
James Beard

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.
Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
Ferran Adria

Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea.
Pythagoras

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
Jose Simon

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.
Frederic Raphael

Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Clemenza, in The Godfather

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.
Leo Buscaglia

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.
Mario Batali

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.
Oscar Wilde

Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child

Food should be fun.
Thomas Keller

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
Andrew Weil

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

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