50 Inspiring Food Quotes to Savor and Share

"People who love to eat are always the best people."

- Julia Child

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

- Harriet van Horne

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

- Hippocrates

"A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."

- Thomas Keller

"Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light."

- Saint Bernard

"Life is a combination of magic and pasta."

- Federico Fellini

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."

- James Beard

"Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life."

- Maya Angelou

"Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love."

- Giada de Laurentiis

"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… The people who give you their food give you their heart."

- Cesar Chavez

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate."

- Alan D. Wolfelt

"Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious."

- Ruth Reichl

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf

"The people who give you their food give you their heart."

- Cesar Chavez

"There is no sincere love than the love of food."

- George Bernard Shaw

"If an event is meant to matter emotionally, symbolically, or mystically, food will be close at hand to sanctify and bind it."

- Diane Ackerman

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

- Ernestine Ulmer

"I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back."

- Alice Waters

"The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken."

- Maya Angelou

"Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That’s what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy."

- Alice Waters

"I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that."

- Chef José Andrés

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."

- John Gunther

"Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?’"

- Anthony Bourdain

"Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

- Julia Child

"Food is really and truly the most effective medicine."

- Joel Fuhrman

"Eating good food is my favourite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful."

- Justine Larbalestier

"The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight."

- M.F.K Fisher

"The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook."

- Julia Child

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are."

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve to have a what-the-hell attitude."

- Julia Child

"The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating."

- John Walters

"Laughter is brightest where food is best."

- Irish proverb

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

- Charles Schulz

"Wine is bottled poetry."

- Robert Luis Stevenson

"Part of the secret of success is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

- Mark Twain

"I love you like a fat kid loves cake."

- Scott Adams

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."

- Luciano Pavarotti

"Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships."

- Winona LaDuke

"Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal."

- Voltaire

"Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want."

- Gael Greene

"To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste."

- Heston Blumenthal

"I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food."

- Laura Esquivel

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death."

- E.M. Forster

"Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks."

- Marilyn Wann

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Bachelor’s fare: bread and cheese, and kisses."

- Jonathan Swift

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces."

- Judith Viorst

"So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being."

- Franz Kafka

"Never eat more than you can life."

- Miss Piggy

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

- Orson Welles

"You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food."

- Paul Prudhomme

"Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate."

- Jo Brand

"I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food."

- Erma Bombeck

"The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is."

- Jerry Saltz

"Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl."

- Josh Hutcherson

"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food."

- W.C. Fields

"My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order."

- Dolly Parton

"My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Butter is the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large."

- Pliny

"A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap."

- Mitch Hedberg

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

- Fran Lebowitz

"Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner."

- Sophia Loren

"The belly rules the mind."

- Spanish Proverb

"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

- Jim Davis

"My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."

- Orson Welles

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."

- Doug Larson

"I love you with every pizza of my heart."

"I could not ask for s'more."

"If you are going to brunch, brunch hard."

"Eat, drink and be married."