103 Funny & Delicious Food Quotes That Will Make You Hungry

From the wisdom of chefs to the comical musings of movie characters, there is no shortage of quotes about food. With its ability to evoke memories and experiences, it’s no surprise that so many people have something to say about what we eat.

Here are 100 handpicked quotes that explore how food can bring us joy and unite us in celebration. They range from insights into the art of gastronomy to humorous remarks you can share over a meal.

Let’s dive into the delicious worlds of these food enthusiasts and find out what they had to say!

1. A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. –Thomas Keller
2. Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world. –Nikita Dudani
3. What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have. -Ferran Adria
4. You can’t make everyone happy. You’re not pizza. -Unknown
5. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death. -E.M. Forster
6. My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order. –Dolly Parton
7. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead. -Woody Allen
8. You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. –Paul Prudhomme
9. Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. –Alan D. Wolfelt
10. Cooking is about life. It gives us what we need to keep going, and it gives us something to share with other people. –Joan Bauer
11. It’s okay to play with your food. -Emeril Lagas
12. Laughter is the brightest in the place where food is. –Irish Proverb
13. My mom made me two dishes: take it or leave it. –Stephen Wright
14. Unless you are a pizza, the answer is yes, I can live without you. -Bill Murray
15. Love, love, and cherish life. Also, just eat the cake. -Aaron Paul
16. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. –Ruth Reichl
17. The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. –J.A. Brillat-Savarin
18. One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well if one has not dined well. –Virginia Woolf
19. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. –John Gunther
20. The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you’ve to have a what-the-hell attitude. –Julia Child
21. Food is our common ground, a universal experience. -James Beard
22. Cooking is about surrender. –Tembi Locke
23. Life’s too short. Start with Dessert! –Barbra Streisand
24. Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. –Robert Redford
25. There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box in your lap. -Kevin James
26. Give me liberty or … a jelly donut! –Homer Simpson
27. I love you like a fat kid loves cake. –Scott Adams
28. The way you make an omelet reveals your character. –Anthony Bourdain
29. The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. –Michael J. Fox
30. After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. –Oscar Wilde
31. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. –J.R.R. Tolkien
32. Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza. -Andrew W.K.
33. The people who give you their food give you their heart. -Caesar Chavez
34. Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. -Dorothy Day
35. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one. –Mother Teresa
36. So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being. –Franz Kafka
37. The stove is the shrine where I convene with my ancestors. –Adam Ragusea
38. Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. -Aland D. Wolfelt
39. The only thing I like better than talking about Food is eating. -John Walters
40. Life is a combination of magic and pasta. –Federico Fellini
41. First, we eat, then we do everything else. –M.F.K. Fisher
42. Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes. -Amy Neftzger
43. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. –Charles M. Shulz
44. A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. –Mitch Hedberg
45. A pizza slice a day keeps sadness away. -Jet Pascal
46. Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. –Sophia Loren
47. I like food. I like eating. And I don’t want to deprive myself of good food. -Sarah Michelle
48. Food is our common ground, a universal experience. –James Beard
49. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. -Charles M. Schulz
50. Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces. –Judith Viorst
51. You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. -Paul Prudhomme
52. Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. –Dough Larson
53. I just don’t want to look back and think I could’ve eaten that. -Unknown
54. Life is a combination of magic and pasta. –Federico Fellini
55. If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat…The people who give you their food give you their heart. –Cesar Chavez
56. One should eat to live, not live to eat. -Moliere
57. Carbs are the answer. No matter the question. -Unknown
58. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -George Bernard Shaw
59. There’s not better feeling in the world than a warm pizza on your lap. -Kevin James
60. Food is an important part of a balanced diet. –Fran Lebowitz
61. The way you make an omelet reveals your character. –Anthony Bourdain
62. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -Mother Teresa
63. My idea of fast food is a mallard. –Ted Nugent
64. Food is a pretty good prism through which to view humanity. –Jonathan Gold
65. Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. –Sophia Loren
66. Good food is an experience and a pleasure that makes life richer. –Authentic Food Quest
67. Love means never having to say “Should we get dessert? -Unknown
68. Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. –Alex Guarnaschelli
69. Eating good food is my favorite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful. –Justine Larbalestier
70. This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. –Joel Salatin
71. I cook with wine, and sometimes I even add it to the food. -W. C. Fields
72. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. –Barbara Johnson
73. If we shake out all of the crumbs from all of the keyboards in the world, we can end world hunger. -Matthew Dolkart
74. Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal. –Voltaire
75. Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks. –Marilyn Wann
76. A party without cake is just a meeting. –Julia Child
77. Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity. -Jonathan Sofran Foer
78. My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music. –Jennifer Aniston
79. The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. –Jerry Saltz
80. I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back. –Alice Waters
81. When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. -Euripides
82. There’s no “we” in ice cream. -Unknown
83. Food is our common ground, a universal experience. –James Beard
84. Good food ends with good talk. –Geoffrey Neighbor
85. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. –George Bernard Shaw
86. Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want. –Gael Greene
87. Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks. -Marilyn Wann
88. Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It’s kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. –Curtis Stone
89. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win. -Tom Brady
90. Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s the nourishment of the soul and body; it’s true love. –Giada De Laurentiis
91. 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
92. Food is the most primitive form of comfort. –Sheilah Graham Westbrook
93. You have to taste a culture to understand it.  –Deborah Cater
94. You only live once… Lick the bowl! -Unknown
95. The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating. –John Walters
96. To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location, and the company as it is about the taste. –Heston Blumenthal
97. Every day is National Donut Day if you put your mind to it. -Unknown
98. Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. -Anthony Bourdain
99. Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. -Peter De Vries
100. Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. –Ernestine Ulmer
101. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart. -Erma Bombeck
102. If we’re not meant to have midnight snacks, why is there a light in the fridge? -Unknown
103. Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem. -James Patterson

After researching and reading 100 quotes about food, it is clear that food has a strong connection to our lives.

Whether it’s used to bring people together, celebrate special occasions, or as a source of comfort during hard times, it’s clear that food is more than just something we need to survive.

Food can be a way to nourish the soul and create lasting memories with family and friends. Ultimately, food is truly an integral part of life that deserves to be appreciated and enjoyed fully.

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