The ultimate curated collection of quotes for people who love talking, creating, and eating food.
"First we eat, then we do everything else."
M.F.K. Fisher
"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."
Luciano Pavarotti
"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."
John Gunther
"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."
Ernestine Ulmer
"People who love to eat are always the best people."
Julia Child
"Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go."
"I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller."
"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into."
George Orwell
"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart."
Erma Bombeck
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
"Life is a combination of magic and pasta."
Federico Fellini
"My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."
Orson Welles
"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie."
Jim Davis
"The only thing I like better than taking about food is eating."
John Walters
"Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks."
Marilyn Wann
"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you’re hungry again."
George Miller
"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food."
Erma Bombeck
"It’s fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That’s what human life is all about - enjoying things."
Julia Child
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
Virginia Woolf