“The universe would be nothing were it not for life, and all that lives must be fed.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
LifeFood Philosophy
Food Quotes
201 FAMOUS QUOTES · FOOD
Food Quotes
Read the best food quotes from Brillat-Savarin, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, the Bible and more, with delicious words about eating, cooking and sharing meals.
“The mistress of the house should always be certain that the coffee is excellent.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
CoffeeHosting
“Coffee is a much more powerful beverage than is commonly believed.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
CoffeeEnergy
“I was determined to know beans.”
Henry David Thoreau
GardeningFunny
“Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.”
Beatrix Potter
PiesFunny
“'When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,' said Piglet at last, 'what's the first thing you say to yourself?' 'What's for breakfast?' said Pooh.”
A. A. Milne
BreakfastFunny
“He always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning.”
A. A. Milne
SnacksFunny
“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner.”
Oscar Wilde
Comfort FoodFunny
“Onions can make even heirs and widows weep.”
Benjamin Franklin
OnionsFunny
“He that would travel much, should eat little.”
Benjamin Franklin
TravelLight Eating
“If you were providing for a city of pigs, Socrates, how else would you feed the beasts?”
Plato
Simple FoodFunny
“From food are born all creatures.”
The Upanishads
Sacred FoodLife
“He did not partake of wine and dried meat bought in the market.”
Confucius
Home CookingFood Safety
“When eating, he did not converse.”
Confucius
Mindful EatingTable Manners
“Let the sky rain potatoes.”
William Shakespeare
PotatoesFunny
“The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, the clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell.”
William Shakespeare
CookingLunch Time
“Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.”
William Shakespeare
BeefEnergy
“Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and but twelve persons there; is this true?”
William Shakespeare
FeastsBig Portions
“Why, she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on.”
William Shakespeare
AppetiteLove
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”
William Shakespeare
FishFood Chain
“My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there: I do beseech you send for some of them.”
William Shakespeare
StrawberriesFruit
“There was a time when all the body's members rebell'd against the belly.”
William Shakespeare
StomachFables
“Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.”
William Shakespeare
CravingsFunny
“Forbear, I say: he dies that touches any of this fruit till I and my affairs are answered.”
William Shakespeare
FruitHunger
“And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them.”
The Bible (Genesis 18:8)
HospitalityServing Guests