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Food QuotesFamous Food quotes by popular authors such as Mitch Hedberg, George Bernard Shaw, Fran Lebowitz, W. Somerset Maugham, Mark Twain and others.
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[highlight-text]Sweets to the sweet.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Hunger is not debatable.
Harry Hopkins
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[highlight-text]Fat gives things flavor.
Julia Child
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[highlight-text]Hunger is the best sauce.
Proverbs
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[highlight-text]The company makes the feast.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz
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[highlight-text]Enough is as good as a feast.
John Heywood
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[highlight-text]Kissing don't last: cookery do.
George Meredith
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[highlight-text]A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Sweets are good for the nerves.
Margarete Bieber
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[highlight-text]A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Ben Jonson
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[highlight-text]Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
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[highlight-text]A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman
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[highlight-text]A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
Philip W. Haberman
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as a little garlic.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]To a man with an empty stomach food is god.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
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[highlight-text]All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
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[highlight-text]There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]If you wish to grow thinner diminish your dinner.
Henry S. Leigh
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be Sorryed up.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat Savarin
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[highlight-text]I saw few die of hunger; of eating a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
Charles Prince of Wales
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[highlight-text]I had one anchovy, that's why I didn't have two anchovies.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Seneca
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[highlight-text]A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
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[highlight-text]The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.
Mason Cooley
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[highlight-text]Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
Yogi Berra
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[highlight-text]I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields
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[highlight-text]More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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[highlight-text]To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
W. Somerset Maugham
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[highlight-text]Even were a cook to cook a fly he would keep the breast for himself.
Polish Proverb
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[highlight-text]A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two he replies four loaves.
Hindu Proverb
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[highlight-text]Fish to taste right must swim three times - in water in butter and in wine.
Polish Proverb
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[highlight-text]You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]I like rice. Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly greatest of deities.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.
Walter de la Mare
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[highlight-text]A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.
Arthur Pendenys
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[highlight-text]It is a hard matter my fellow citizens to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]Bad men live that they may eat and drink whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
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[highlight-text]I feel a recipe is only a theme which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madame Benoit
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[highlight-text]Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
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[highlight-text]Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Sir Robert Hutchinson
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[highlight-text]Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.
Rodney Dangerfield
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[highlight-text]What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice
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[highlight-text]A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]I order the club sandwich all the time, but I'm not even a member, man. I don't know how I get away with it.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I'm sick of Soup of the Day, it's time we made a decision. I wanna know what the Sorry 'Soup From Now On' is.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]We are indeed much more than what we eat but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
Adelle Davis
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[highlight-text]If I bought a company that made hot dog buns, on Day 1 we would add 2 buns to every package... Day 2, work on deliciousness.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I had a piece of Carefree Sugarless gum and I was still worried. It never kicked in, I took it back to the store and said 'Bullshit!'
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I was walking down the street the other day when this guy asked if I wanted a frozen banana...I said 'no' but then thought I might want a regular banana later, so...yeah.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I think Pringles original intention was to make tennis balls... but on the day the rubber was supposed to show up a truckload of potatoes came. Pringles is a laid-back company, so they just said, 'Sorry it, cut em up!'
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I saw this dude, he was wearing a leather jacket, and at the same time he was eating a hamburger and drinking a glass of milk. I said to him 'Dude, you're a cow. The metamorphosis is complete. Don't fall asleep or I'll tip you over.'
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I went to a pizzeria, I ordered a slice of pizza, the Sorryer gave me the smallest slice possible. If the pizza was a pie chart for what people would do if they found a million dollars, the Sorryer gave me the 'donate it to charity' slice. I would like to exchange this for the 'keep it!'
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]If I worked at a store and a duck came in I would like just give him some bread-- 'sure man no problem-- tell your friends'--- but I would not give him Pepperidge Farm bread....You know that stuff right? you open it and it still ain't open. That is why I do not buy it. Cause I do not need another step, between ME and toast.'
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]I ordered a chicken sandwich but I think the waitress misunderstood me because she said, 'How would you like your eggs?' So I tried to answer her anyhow. I said 'Incubated, and then raised, and then beheaded, and then plucked and then cut up then put onto a grill then put onto a bun. Shit, it's gonna take awhile. I don't have time, scrambled!'
Mitch Hedberg