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
- Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Ernestine Ulmer - Food is not about impressing people. It’s about making them feel comfortable.
Ina Garten - If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.
Julia Child - 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 - Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
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
Humorous Cooking Quotes
- Snack time heals all wounds.
Bridger Winegar - Cauliflower is nothing cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain - Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
Sophia Loren - 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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Inspirational Food Sayings
These inspirational quotes on food will make you want to cook right now.
- 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 - Good food is a celebration of life.
Sophia Loren
Short Cooking Quotes
- Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
Federico Fellini - Laughter is brightest where food is best.
Irish Proverb - Only a fool would argue with a skunk, a mule, or a cook.
Cowboy saying - The secret ingredient is always love.
Unknown - We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of an opportunity to eat badly.
Anna Thomas - Never trust a skinny cook.
English saying - All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
Unknown - A party without cake is just a meeting.
Unknown - Promises and pie-crust are meant to be broken.
Jonathan Swift - When I learned how to cook I forgot how to clean.
Unknown - The secret ingredient is always cheese.
Unknown - You only live once, lick the bowl.
Unknown
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Quotations on Dining
- 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 - This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
Mark Bittman - People who love to eat are always the best people.
Julia Child - 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 - Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
Orson Welles
Comfort Food Sayings
- Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham - Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne - Good Food = Good Mood.
Unknown - I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
Elizabeth Gilbert - I go to the kitchen for food and all I see is ingredients.
Unknown - Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis - A sharp knife is a chef’s best friend.
Unknown - Eat food, not much, mostly plants.
Michael Pollan - Don’t be upsetti, eat some spaghetti.
Unknown
–Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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