The Most Famous And Greatest Food Quotes Of All Time

The next best thing to eating food is talking about it. Here are just a few people who think of food in the same way, with quotes curated by the Dineread review team.

“If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.” -Julia Child

“First we eat, then we do everything else.” -M.F.K. Fisher

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” -Ernestine Ulmer

“Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.” -Unknown

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.” -David Auerbach

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” -M.F.K. Fisher

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” -Paul Prudhomme

“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.” -Nora Ephron

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” -Julia Child

“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” -W.C. Fields

“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” -Anna Thomas

“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” -Barbara Johnson

“People who love to eat are always the best people. - Julia Child”

“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” -Orson Welles

“The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” -Mark Twain

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” -Lewis Grizzard

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf

“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

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

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” -Harriet van Horne

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” - Jonathan Swift

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” -Alan D. Wolfelt

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.” -Jim Davis

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