“Gourmandism is the enemy of excess.”
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
ModerationFoodies
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.
“You must reflect carefully beforehand with whom you are to eat and drink, rather than what you are to eat and drink.”
Epicurus
Dining CompanyFriendship
“Let him never abuse food; that is the rule.”
The Upanishads
Respect For FoodSacred Food
“Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things, all rot the teeth.”
Benjamin Franklin
SweetsDental Health
“Presents, I often say, endear Absents.”
Charles Lamb
Food GiftsFriendship
“Baked apples, with cream. Fried oysters; stewed oysters. Frogs.”
Mark Twain
CravingsFunny
“A child should always say what's true and speak when he is spoken to, and behave mannerly at table; at least as far as he is able.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Table MannersKids
“George said it was absurd to have only four potatoes in an Irish stew.”
Jerome K. Jerome
StewFunny
“They lived at the bottom of a well. It was a treacle-well.”
Lewis Carroll
SweetsFunny
“'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail.”
Lewis Carroll
SeafoodFunny
“It's a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees, they'd build their nests at the bottom of trees.”
A. A. Milne
HoneyFunny
“'Honey or condensed milk with your bread?' He was so excited that he said, 'Both,' and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, 'But don't bother about the bread, please.'”
A. A. Milne
HoneyFunny
“Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry.”
Mother Goose
DessertsNursery Rhymes
“The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.”
Mother Goose
KitchenNursery Rhymes
“Handy spandy, Jack-a-dandy, loves plum cake and sugar candy.”
Mother Goose
SweetsNursery Rhymes
“Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's.”
Mother Goose
FruitNursery Rhymes
“Oh, do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man?”
Mother Goose
BakingNursery Rhymes
“Hickety, pickety, my black hen, she lays eggs for gentlemen.”
Mother Goose
EggsNursery Rhymes
“And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.”
The Bible (Genesis 43:31)
MealtimeFamily
“And he shall bless thy bread, and thy water.”
The Bible (Exodus 23:25)
BlessingGratitude
“And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul.”
The Bible (1 Samuel 9:24)
ChefsServing Guests
“And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.”
The Bible (1 Samuel 8:13)
BakersCooking
“And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.”
The Bible (2 Samuel 13:8)
BakingCakes
“I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.”
The Bible (1 Kings 17:12)
ScarcityFaith
“Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?”
The Bible (Job 12:11)
TasteWisdom