Our collection of 51 Good Food Quotes will either have you heading to the refrigerator or laughing. Some might call this a win-win.
Someone once famously said that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” Food can truly move hearts, win you friends and make amends in relationships where other things may not work. More things have been said about food in history than almost anything else – except maybe love. You don’t have to be an avid foodie to think of food. Delicious foods have to power to influence anyone and everyone.
Here are some good food quotes you can share with your friends and family or find interesting yourself.
Quotes About Food
Food is not about impressing people. It’s about making them feel comfortable.
Ina Garten
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin
Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
Alan D. Wolfelt
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
Laughter is brightest where food is best.
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Food and Friends Sayings
He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them is not worthy of having friends.
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.
Samuel Chamberlain
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
William Shakespeare
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends, and family in my own backyard.
Rodney Atkins
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes
I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.
Suzanne Weyn
Funny Food Quotes
When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, ‘Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.’
Yogi Berra
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
There is no “WE” in food.
Unknown
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished two bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
Dave Barry
How do I like my eggs? In a cake.
Unknown
I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.
W.C. Fields
I love you like a fat kid loves cake!
Scott Adams
The trouble with eating Italian food is that, five or six days later, you’re hungry again.
George Miller
Hilarious
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy (Jim Henson)
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o’clock in the morning.
John Barrymore
Red meat is not bad for you. Now, blue-green meat—that’s bad for you!
Tom Smothers
Vegetarians are cowards. They just kill things that can’t move.
Unknown
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck
Snack time heals all wounds.
Bridger Winegar
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
Mayonnaise. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce
Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.
Don Kardong
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
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Healthy Food
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.
Hippocrates
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
Thomas Edison
Over weeks and months …you will get addicted to the awesome taste of healthy food…and start wondering why you never did it earlier!
The Fitness Doc
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying.
Ivan Illich
Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley
The healthy man is the thin man. But you don’t need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches, and sugars; that’s all.
Samael Aun Weor
Proper nutrition is one of the most fundamental things on which anyone’s healthy and happy life can be based.
Sahara Sanders
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Good Food Quotes and Sayings
Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.
Irina Shayk
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Oscar Wilde
You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.
Paul Prudhomme
My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!
Jennifer Aniston
This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
Mark Bittman
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.
Garrison Keillor
I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.
Bethenny Frankel
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that’s not elitist.
Alice Waters
I get way too much happiness from good food.
Elizabeth Olsen
Patience is the secret to good food.
Gail Simmons
–Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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