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