Food Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 3
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do.
P.J. O’Rourke
Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.
Anonymous
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
Anonymous
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham
Man is born to eat.
Craig Claiborne
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
Jonathan Swift
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson
In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
Food is to eat, not to frame and hang on the wall.
William Denton
The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
Lin Yutang
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Cervantes
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Barbara Cartland
The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
St Frances de Sales
Worries go down better with soup.
Jewish Proverb
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
Tom Lehrer
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
It’s important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Henry Bromel
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.
George Miller
Food is not about impressing people. It’s about making them feel comfortable.
Ina Garten
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
George Bernard Shaw
Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas.
Roseanne
The belly rules the mind.
Spanish Proverb
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Ambrose Bierce
I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
Katherine Cebrian
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
Confucius
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Henry David Thoreau
Make food simple and let things taste of what they are.
Curnonsky
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Too many cooks spoil the food.
Anonymous