Food Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings

Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution.
Irwin Van Grove

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fibre to sustain the world.
Phil Bredesen

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o’clock in the morning.
John Barrymore

Man is what he eats.
Ludwig Feuerbach

Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
Robert Orben

If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?
Anonymous

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.
Mark Twain

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ‘home’ might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
Emily Post

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.
Mitch Hedberg

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!
Tommy Smothers

Take your hare when it is cased…
Hannah Glasse

Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree.
Elizabeth Russell

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.
Craig Claiborne

There is no such thing as a little garlic.
A. Baer

We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
J.B. Priestly

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.
Stephen Leacock

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
Lin Yutang

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
Edward Lear

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we’ll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there’s no tomorrow.
Lee Iacocca

A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed.
George Rosenbaum

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
William Osler

It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
Julia Child

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Robert Byrne

Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes?
Chang Chan Pao

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Galbraith

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it.
Anonymous

When I’m at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there’s a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who’s struggling mightily with a fork.
Rick Budinich