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Food Quotes and Sayings

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Cervantes

Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.
Gael Greene

No, I don’t take soup. You can’t build a meal on a lake.
Elsie de Wolfe

Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.
H.L. Mencken

There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye.
Author Unknown

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

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Author Unknown

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
Author Unknown

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that�s bad for you!
Tommy Smothers

Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
Author Unknow

As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.
Author Unknown

The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.
Beatrice & Ira Freeman

The belly rules the mind.
Spanish Proverb

My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz

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

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Diogenes the Cynic

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G.K. Chesterton

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther

A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed.
George Rosenbaum

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
Henry IV of France

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
Jos� Simons

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
Old New York Proverb

Eat little, sleep sound.
Iranian Proverb

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
Confucius

Worries go down better with soup.
Jewish Proverb

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
N.F. Simpson

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.
A. Kerr

Sleep ’til you’re hungry, eat ’til you’re sleepy.
Author Unknown

Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
Clementine Paddleford

A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.
Martin H. Fischer

An empty belly is the best cook.
Estonian Proverb

If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food.
Sally Edwards

If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture.
Audrey Foris

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

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
Lin Yutang

We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.
Steve Elbert

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
Annita Manning

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead – not sick, not wounded – dead.
Woody Allen

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

You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you’re apt to be a hermit.
Franklin P. Jones

The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.
Martin H. Fischer

He who eats alone chokes alone.
Proverb

After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile.
English Saying

Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens.
Sepal Felicivant

If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?
Author Unknown

He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.
James I

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

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
Chinese Proverb

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.
Bert Greene

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
Joan Gussow

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

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.
Craig Claiborne

If soup isn’t hot enough to make a grown man wince, it’s undrinkable.
Grey Livingston

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.
George Carlin

Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.
Jim Davis

I’m not sure what makes pepperoni so good – if it’s the pepper or the oni.
Ulrik Stephens

Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.
Astrid Alauda

All sorrows are less with bread.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen.
Emily Lotney

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

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
English Proverb

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

Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman

Life goes faster on protein.
Martin H. Fischer

Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life.
Sydney Smith

There is no such thing as a little garlic.
A. Baer

Soup is liquid comfort.
Author Unknown

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion.
Martin H. Fischer

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

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