998 Quotes Regarding Food


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

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

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

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

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

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

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

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen

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

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
Jo Brand

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

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
Jamie Oliver

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

If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries

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

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

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
Prince William