A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
~ Barbara Johnson, author and comedian
Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.
~ James Thurber
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~ Harriet Van Horne
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives. ~ Oscar Wilde
Laughter is brightest where food is best.
~ Irish Proverb
I just hate health food. ~ Julia Child
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
~ Adlai Stevenson
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
~ Josh Billings
A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~ Old New York Proverb
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~ Steven Wright
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~ Lucille Ball
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent
sort of fellow. ~ A. A. Milne
Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.
~ Charlie Trotter
"Wish I had time for just one more bowl of chili. ~ the dying words of Kit Carson
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
~ Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"
Worries go down better with soup.
~ Jewish Proverb
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
~ Alfred E. Newman
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
~ Cervantes
The food quotes on this page are a Glen's Place collection from various sources. Enjoy these wise sayings by famous people about food.