Food Quotes
Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
- Jim Davis
Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.
- Jason Zebehazy
The belly rules the mind.
- Spanish Proverb
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw
An empty belly is the best cook.
- Estonian Proverb
Good food ends with good talk.
- Geoffrey Neighor
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi
My favorite animal is steak.
- Fran Lebowitz
All sorrows are less with bread.
- Miguel Cervantes
Worries go down better with soup.
- Jewish Proverb
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
- Charles Lamb
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
- Cervantes
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti.
- Robert Morley
I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
- N.F. Simpson
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
- Fran Lebowitz
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
- John Gunther
Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.
- Jay Leno
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
- Confucius
Anyhow, the hole in the dough nut is at least digestible.
- H.L. Mencken
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
- Erma Bombeck
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
- Woody Allen
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
- Julia
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
- Fran Lebowitz
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
- Joan Gussow
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
– G.K. Chesterton
Watermelon it’s a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
- Enrico Caruso
If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
- Jo Brand
Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
- Anthony Trollope
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead not sick, not wounded dead.
- Woody Allen
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
- Lin Yutang
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
- Laiko Bahrs
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
- Pierre August
The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
- Cecil Rhodes
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
- Chinese Proverb
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
- Isaac Asimov
I’m not saying my wife’s a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
- Bob Monkhouse
I’m not sure what makes pepperoni so good – if it’s the pepper or the oni.
- Ulrik Stephens
As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
- Buddy Hackett
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
- Henry
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
- Dave Barry


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