Food Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings


A hungry stomach seldoms scorns plain food.
Horace

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.
Oscar Wilde

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
Alfred E. Newman

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Thomas Tusser

I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney Dangerfield

Hunger finds no fault with the cooking.
Proverb

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well mitched they are as body and soul, living partners.
Andre Simon

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Channing Pollock

HAM AND EGGS - A day’s work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.
Anonymous

My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz

Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck

Life goes faster on protein.
Martin H. Fischer

I’m not saying my wife’s a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
Bob Monkhouse

I’m not sure what makes pepperoni so good - if it’s the pepper or the oni.
Ulrik Stephens

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
Epictetus

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
Cyra McFadden

You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you’re apt to be a hermit.
Franklin P. Jones

I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some fries.’ The girl at the counter said, ‘Would you like some fries with that?’
Jay Leno

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
Woody Allen

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese proverb

Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
Fran Lebowitz

This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal…. We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.
Jane Grigson

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
Woody Allen

There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
Thomas Wolfe

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
Hippocrates

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
José Simons

I’m allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.
Carol Channing

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: “I don’t like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate.”
Anonymous

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wouldn’t go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.
Jonny Wilkinson

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