Food Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings

I like rice. Rice is great if you’re hungry and want 2000 of something.
Mitch Hedberg

It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.
Edward Bunyard

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W.C. Fields

The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them.
Vince Staten

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.
Erma Bombeck

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
Orson Welles

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Charles Lamb

I’m trying to eat better. And, I do feel wise after drinking tea. After eating vegetables, I just feel hungry.
Carrie Latet

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
Will Rogers

Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

This is every cook’s opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
Jonathan Swift

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.
Tom Wilson

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That’s why I love vegetables, you know what they’re about!
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Richard Whately

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don’t eat it.
Edward Koch

After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual “food” out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.
Miss Piggy

You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child

Savory seasonings stimulate the appetite.
Latin Proverb

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.
Elizabeth David

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
William Ralph Inge

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.
Lionel Poilane

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
Mary Bateson

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher