Food Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 4



Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.
Norman Kolpas

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck

Food responds to our soul’s dream as to our stomach’s appetite.
Joseph Delteil

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
Samuel Johnson

Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
Ivan Turgenev

It’s amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can’t go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.
Adam Scott

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

Oil and potatoes both grow underground so french fries may have eventually produced themselves, had they not been invented.
A.J. Esther

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
P. J. O’Rourke

He who comes first, eats first.
Eike von Repkow

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.
Lynda Montgomery

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Leigh Hunt

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
Alice May Brock

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

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

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

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

You know how I feel about tacos. It’s the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile.
Danielle Sanchez

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Pearl Buck

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates

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

I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.
Martha Harrison

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It’s time to start making soup again.
Leslie Newman

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

Food…can look beautiful, taste exquisite, smell wonderful, make people feel good, bring them together, inspire romantic feelings….At its most basic, it is fuel for a hungry machine;….
Rosamond Richardson

There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Anonymous

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

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

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

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Lewis Carroll

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