Food Quotations!

Everyone enjoys food! I have collected these quotes over time. They comes from books, magazines, movies, tv shows, foodblogs and in daily conversation. Some are inspirational, some funny, and some are just downright interesting. However, these are the ones that have stood out for me.


No Man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop eating after one peanut
-Channing Pollock

Abstain from Beans
-Plutarch


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

I love food. I love cooking it. I love eating it. 
-Chef Michael Smith

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God... I could be eating a slow learner!"
-Lynda Montgomery

...he is the cheese to my macaroni...
Ellen Page (Juno)

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon
The Dalai Lama

We elves try to stick to the four main food groups. Candy, candy cane, candy corn, and syrup...
-Will Farell (Elf)

Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.
-Gail Gand

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon Appetit. 
-Julia Child

Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it, Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrump, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burgers, shrimp sandwich... That- that's about it. 
-Bubba (Forrest Gump)


One should eat to live, not live to eat.
-Benjamin Franklin


The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese...
-G.K. Chesterton


Hey Yogurt! If you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?
-Steven Colbert


He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise
-Henry David Thoreau


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


Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-G.K. Chesterton