Savor the Wisdom: 50 Inspiring Quotes About Food

"Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks."

- Judith B. Jones

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

- La Rochefoucauld

"Food can heal and renew. It can make us feel connected, grounded, and home."

- Kristin Kimball

"The gift of food has a magical way of connecting people across time and culture."

- Alice Waters

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

- Alan D. Wolfelt

"Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments."

- Bethenny Frankel

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

- Hippocrates

"Food is the most primitive form of comfort."

- Sheila Graham

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

- Mark Twain

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society."

- Judith Martin

"The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture."

- Michael Pollan

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison."

- Ann Wigmore

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

- Ruth Reichl

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

- James Beard

"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

"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

"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

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

- Julia Child

"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

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

- Julia Child

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

- Thomas Keller

"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

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

- Harriet van Horne

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Joel Fuhrman

"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 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

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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

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

- Scott Adams

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

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"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

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

- Julia Child

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

- Ernestine Ulmer

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

- Laura Esquivel

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

- Heston Blumenthal

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."

- John Gunther

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

- E.M. Forster

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

- Gael Greene

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

- Jerry Saltz

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

- Justine Larbalestier

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

- Julia Child

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Orson Welles

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

- Josh Hutcherson

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

- Jo Brand

"Never eat more than you can life."

- Miss Piggy

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

- Voltaire

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

- Erma Bombeck

"Wine is bottled poetry."

- Robert Luis Stevenson

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

- Marilyn Wann

"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

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

- Paul Prudhomme

"The belly rules the mind."

- Spanish Proverb

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

- Orson Welles

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

- Mitch Hedberg

"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

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

- Pliny

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

- Dough Larson

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

- Jonathan Swift

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Fran Lebowitz

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

- Sophia Loren

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Jim Davis

"When you share food, you share love."

"Food is the bridge that connects our lives, linking the past with the present and the future."

"Eating well is a form of self-respect."