Food Quotes

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”― W.C. Fields

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”― Charles M. Schulz

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”― Scott Adams

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

“Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”― Voltaire

“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.” – Will Rogers

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.”― Robert Frost

“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”― Anthony Bourdain

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”― Orson Welles

“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans. ”― Ronald Reagan

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”― Charles de Gaulle

“People who love to eat are always the best people.” – Julia Child

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

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”― Roald Dahl

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”― Abraham Lincoln

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates

“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.” – James Thurber

“Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.” – Audrey Hepburn

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”― Sophia Loren

“Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.” – Yolanda Adams

“One should eat to live, not live to eat.” – Moliere

“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop, or our marriage would have been wrecked.”― Winston S. Churchill

“I get way too much happiness from good food.” – Elizabeth Olsen

“Eating good food is my favorite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.” – Justine Larbalestier

“After a full belly all is poetry.”― Frank McCourt

 “Patience is the secret to good food.” – Gail Simmons

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”― George Bernard Shaw

“Cakes are healthy too; you just eat a small slice.”― Mary Berry

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

“If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.” -Julia Child

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

“First we eat, then we do everything else.” -M.F.K. Fisher

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” – Adelle Davis

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” -Ernestine Ulmer

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.” – Oscar Wilde

“Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.” -Unknown

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.” -David Auerbach

“You can’t just eat good food. You have got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”― Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

“You are what you eat eats.”― Michael Pollan             

“I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food”― Erma Bombeck

“All sorrows are less with bread. ”― Miguel de Cervantes

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” – Doug Larson

”It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.” – Kurt Cobain

 “Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.” – Albert Ellis

“People who love to eat are always the best people. – Julia Child”

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

“When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.” – Euripides

“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.” – Chris Rock

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

“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.” – Christopher Morley

 “Rice is born in water and must die in wine.” – Italian Proverb

“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.” – G. K. Chesterton

 “Vegetables are food of the earth, but fruits taste of the heavens.” – Terri Guillemets

 “We don’t get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we’re getting fat.” – Gary Taubes

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

“Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.”― Ellen Rose

“I hate France. It’s like the whole country’s on a diet”― Gordon Korman

“Hearts can’t be broken because they’re made of marzipan.”― Kerstin Gier

“Never eat more than you can lift.” – Miss Piggy

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

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”― Samuel Butler

“Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ”― Robert Byrne

“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”― Plato