80 Delicious Food Quotes to Sink Your Teeth Into

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Food brings people together like nothing else. It nourishes not only our bodies but our souls. Food lets us celebrate life's special moments and is intricately tied to our fondest memories. Is it any wonder so many of history's greatest minds have waxed poetic about eating delicious fare? From famous chefs to beloved authors, brilliant thinkers throughout the ages inspire us to savor every bite.

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80 Best Food Quotes

1. "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." — Virginia Woolf

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

3. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." — Anthelme Brillat—Savarin

4. "There is no sincerer love than the love of food." — George Bernard Shaw

5. "First, we eat, then we do everything else." — M.F.K. Fisher

6. "Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together." — Guy Fieri

7. "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." — Hippocrates

8. "People who love to eat are always the best people." — Julia Child

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9. "The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook." — Julia Child

10. "Life is a combination of magic and pasta." — Federico Fellini

11. "Good food ends with good talk." — Geoffrey Neighor

12. "Food is our common ground, a universal experience." — James Beard

13. "The way you make an omelet reveals your character." — Anthony Bourdain

14. "I get way too much happiness from good food." — Elizabeth Olsen

15. "You don't need a silver fork to eat good food." — Paul Prudhomme

16. "I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." — W.C. Fields

17. "Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.” — Winona LaDuke

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

19. "A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.” — Thomas Keller

20. "Never eat more than you can lift.” — Miss Piggy

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21. "Food should be fun." — Thomas Keller

22. "We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly." — Anna Thomas

23. "Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is." — Irish Proverb

24. "Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate." — Alan D. Wolfelt

25. “Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.” — Gael Greene

26. "If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him... The people who give you their food give you their heart." — Cesar Chavez

27. "The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken." — Maya Angelou

28. Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.” — Craig Claiborne

29. "To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste." — Heston Blumenthal

30. "I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that." — José Andrés Puerta

31. "My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people." — Orson Welles

32. "All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast." — John Gunther

33. "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

34. The belly rules the mind.” — Spanish Proverb

35. "Life is too short for self—hatred and celery sticks.” — Marilyn Wann

36. “In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.” — Julia Child

37. “I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of food.” — Erma Bombeck

38. “My weaknesses have always been food and men — in that order.” — Dolly Parton

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

40. "Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity." — Jonathan Safran Foer

41. "Food is memories." — José Andrés

42. “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” — Oscar Wilde

43. “Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” — Ernestine Ulmer

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

45. “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” — Michael Pollan

46. “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.” — Sophia Loren

47. “Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.” — Louise Fresco

48. "Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.” — George Bernard Shaw “

49. “Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.” — Joel Fuhrman

50. “Food is art, and food is love. And we should show love and appreciation for those who cook it by eating it with relish.” — Mark Bittman

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

52. “I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.” — Laura Esquivel

53. “I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.” — Alice Waters

54. “The secret of food lies in memory — of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.” — Jerry Saltz

55. “Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.” — Giada De Laurentiis

56. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” — Jim Davis

57. “When the lasagna content in my blood gets low, I get mean.” — Garfield

58. “My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music.” — Jennifer Aniston

59. “Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.” — Maya Angelou

60. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” — Dough Larson

61. “Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.” — Josh Hutcherson

62. “Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.” — Saint Bernard

63. “Butter is the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large.” — Pliny

64. "I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not." — Coco Chanel

65. "A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand." — Barbara Johnson

66. “Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” — Anthony Bourdain

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

68. “Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self—esteem.” — James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

69. "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." — Harriet Van Horne

70. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” — Fran Lebowitz

71. "Age and glasses of wine should never be counted." — Unknown

72. "It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." — Lewis Grizzard

73. "Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt." — Judith Olney

74. “A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.” —Mitch Hedberg

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

76. “Bachelor’s fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.” — Jonathan Swift

77. François de la Rochefoucauld "To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." — François de la Rochefoucauld

78. “The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.” — M.F.K Fisher

79. “Wine is bottled poetry.” — Robert Luis Stevenson

80. “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces.” — Judith Viorst

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