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Quotes About Food

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
What's a sesame seed grow into? I don't know we never give them a chance, what the fu.. is a sesame?! It's a street... It's a way to open sh.....
~ Mitch Hedberg
So few people eat okra (more radishes are grown in this country) that it never even makes it onto the lists of Top 10 hated foods
~ Julia Reed
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals. Nature uses both kingdoms to form all existing combustible mat
~ Antoine Lavoisier
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes - but it's just like chicken, only tenderer. Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.
~ Alistair Cooke
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
~ Bryan Miller
Is she fat? Her favorite food is seconds
~ Joan Rivers
Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
~ Diana Vreeland
Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.
~ John Dos Passos
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
~ Joan Rivers
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
~ Elias Canetti
I just hate health food
~ Julia Child
Our hamburgers, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterfeit charcoal, placed between slices of artificially flavored cardboard and served to us by recycled juvenile delinquents
~ Unknown
As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
~ Alan King
I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
~ Cameron Diaz
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself
~ Unknown
Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king.
~ Louis Bromfield
Sales man: You got time for lunch? Homer: Yeah..but I usually have 2 or 3. Salesman: You like thai? Homer: Yeah, ya like shirt?
~ Matt Groening
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
~ Bill Gates
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food
~ Raymond Chandler
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
~ Robert Morley
Mother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the patty group, which includes hamburgers, fish sticks, and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.
~ Dave Barry
My idea of feng shui is to have them arrange the pepperoni in a circle on my pizza
~ Titus Lucretius Carus