A Feast of Inspiration: 75+ Inspiring Food Quotes to Savor

"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

"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

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

- Giada De Laurentiis

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

- Harriet van Horne

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

- Charles Schulz

"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

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

- Mother Teresa

"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

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Paul Prudhomme

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

- Hippocrates

"Food should be fun."

- Thomas Keller

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."

- Elsa Schiaparelli

"I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of memory."

- Mitch Albom

"When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life."

- Monica Bellucci

"I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. You know how if you turned on a faucet in your sink to wash your hands, the idea of leaving the bathroom without turning it off is insane? That's how I am about ignoring delicious food."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Franz Kafka

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

- Mark Twain

"Food is a common denominator for all people."

- Guy Fieri

"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."

- La Rochefoucauld

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."

- Elsa Schiaparelli

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

- Moliere

"Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity."

- Louise Fresco

"I get way too much happiness from good food."

- Elizabeth Olsen

"Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially–romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory."

- Chris Bohjalian

"The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating."

- John Walters

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."

- Aesop

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

- James Beard

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."

- Dorothy Day

"Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good."

- Ina Garten

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."

- Ken Hill

"Life is too short to eat food that doesn't taste good."

- Alana Chernila

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Thomas Keller

"Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past."

- Homaro Cantu

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

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"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

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

- Alan D. Wolfelt

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

- Laura Esquivel

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

- Alice Waters

"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

"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 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

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

- Anthony Bourdain

"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

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

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

- Julia Child

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

- Joel Fuhrman

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Ruth Reichl

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

- Diane Ackerman

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

- Ernestine Ulmer

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

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Julia Child

"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

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

- Justine Larbalestier

"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

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

- Paul Prudhomme

"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

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."

- John Gunther

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

- Franz Kafka

"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

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

- Julia Child

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

- Gael Greene

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

- Scott Adams

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

- Fran Lebowitz

"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

"Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before."

- Marilyn vos Savant

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Julia Child

"All sorrows are less with bread."

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."

- Lewis Grizzard

"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Wine is bottled poetry."

- Robert Luis Stevenson

"There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap."

- Kevin James

"I could talk food all day. I love good food."

- Tom Brady

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."

- Jonathan Swift

"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."

- Benjamin Franklin

"No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention."

- Christopher Morley

"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."

- David Mamet

"Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread."

- Ellen Rose

"After a full belly all is poetry."

- Frank McCourt

"Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter."

- Nigella Lawson

"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt."

- Judith Olney

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

- Julia Child

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

- Lin Yutang

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

- W.C. Fields

"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."

- John Steinbeck

"And when all of the flourless chocolate cakes & chocolate mousse or ganache cakes have come and gone, there will still be nothing like a fudgy brownie, dry & crackled on top, moist & dense within, with a glass of cold milk."

- Richard Sax

"There is only one right way to eat a steak – with greed in your heart and a smile on your face."

- Soumeet Lanka

"I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face."

- Scarlett Johansson

"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."

- Peter De Vries

"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting."

- Andy Rooney

"Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults."

- Mitch Hedberg

"I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods."

- David Soul

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

- Orson Welles

"It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine."

- Kelly Williams Brown

"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."

- M. F. K. Fisher

"What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?"

- Libba Bray

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

- Yogi Berra

"Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct."

- Denis Leary

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

- Dough Larson

"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Sophia Loren

"What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."

- A.A. Milne

"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

"Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice."

- Mary Berry

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

- Samuel Butler

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them."

- Sai Baba

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

- John Cleese

"The belly rules the mind."

- Spanish Proverb

"If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar."

- Harold Wilson

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

- Mitch Hedberg

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Pliny

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

- Jo Brand

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

- W.C. Fields

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

- John Walters

"Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices."

- L'Wren Scott

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

- Orson Welles

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

- Jim Davis

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

- Jennifer Aniston

"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

- Voltaire

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

- Orson Welles

"Never eat more than you can lift."

- Miss Piggy

"Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string."

- Robin Williams

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."

- A. Whitney Brown

"Let them eat cake."

- Marie Antoinette

"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

- Ronald Reagan

"I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable."

- Demetri Martin

"I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple."

- Bill Waterson

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

- Charles de Gaulle

"You can't make a souffle rise twice."

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."

- Lord Byron

"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak."

- Ted Nugent

"If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science"

- Michelle M. Pillow

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

- Dolly Parton

"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."

- James Joyce

"Eat, drink and be married."

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

"I could not ask for s'more."

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