Food Quotes

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ Virginia Woolf

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

~ Jess C. Scott

My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.


~ Dora J. Arod

She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I could go for dessert.

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.

~ Dora J. Arod

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

~ M.f.k. Fisher

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

~ Nora Ephron

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

~ Ruth Reichl

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

~ Scott Adams

Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

~ E.m. Forster

Life itself is the proper binge.

~ Julia Child

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

~ Dione Lucas

It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

~ Kerstin Gier

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

~ Orson Welles

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

~ W.c. Fields

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

~ Joss Whedon

Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.

~ Meg Cabot

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.And it always feels good.

~ Lora Brody

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

~ David Mamet

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

~ Calvin Trillin

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

~ Scott Adams

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

~ Scott Adams

As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear's.I tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with most horses.I'm going to clean your stables. Won't that be great?Come inside! Eat you! Tasty half-blood!Usually this gets me VIP treatment in the equestrian world, not this time.Poseidon can come in, too! We will eat you both! Seafood! The other horses chimed in as they waded through the field.

~ Rick Riordan

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

~ William Shakespeare

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

~ Scott Adams

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

~ Margaret Atwood

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

~ Jeffrey Steingarten

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It's all owned, and if you want some, you'll have to buy it.

~ Daniel Quinn

Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!

~ Daniel Amory

For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth. Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.

~ Suzy Kassem

If you seek for supreme predator, go find God. He hunts the prime killer of mankind, the Satan.

~ Toba Beta

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

~ Sherman Alexie

They served Good Food but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?

~ Julie Kenner