Foodie Quotes, Sayings
Foodies don’t just eat to survive. They eat to connect with family and friends, explore different cultures, and taste new and exciting flavors. For them, food is a passion. And as you’ll see by these foodie quotes and sayings, the experience of eating is something to be savored and celebrated.
Best foodie quotes
Throughout history, people have said many wise and witty things about food. From the simple observation that “life is too short to eat bad food” to the more philosophical proclamation that “food is the poetry of the earth,” these quotes and sayings capture the essence of the foodie’s relationship with eating.
1.) People who love to eat are always the best people.
Julia Child
2.) Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
Anthony Bourdain
3.) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
4.) Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
Ruth Reichl
5.) Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially — romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
Chris Bohjalian
Funny foodie quotes
6.) I love you like a fat kid loves cake!
Scott Adams
7.) Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
Orson Welles
8.) Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck
9.) The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child
10.) Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
11.) My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
12.) The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you’re hungry again.
George Miller
Cute foodie sayings
13.) All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
14.) We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
David Mamet
15.) Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis
Short foodie quotes for Instagram
Use these short food quotes as captions for Instagram, Facebook status quotes, and other social media posts.
Funny captions
16.) First we eat, then we do everything else.
M.F.K. Fisher
17.) A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay.
Marcia Carrington
18.) Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Ernestine Ulmer
19.) Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.
Marilyn Wann
Cute captions
20.) I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of food.
Erma Bombeck
21.) The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
22.) A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
Barbara Johnson
Good food captions
23.) Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.
Jo Brand
24.) All sorrows are less with bread.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
25.) You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.
Paul Prudhomme
Foodie happiness quotes
26.) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
27.) All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
Inspirational foodie quotes
28.) To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.
Heston Blumenthal
29.) A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
Thomas Keller
30.) We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.
Anna Thomas
31.) I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
José Andrés Puerta
Foodie quotes about life
32.) Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
Federico Fellini
33.) Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
34.) You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
Kurt Vonnegut
35.) Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
With family and friends
36.) After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Oscar Wilde
37.) Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M.F.K. Fisher
38.) The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
Foodie quotes about love
39.) There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
40.) Love is in the sensual details.
Lebo Grand
41.) Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne
42.) Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet van Horne
43.) Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
Alan D. Wolfelt
44.) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
45.) Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.
Giada De Laurentiis
Famous foodie quotes
46.) Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare
47.) Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
48.) If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him. The people who give you their food give you their heart.
Cesar Chavez
From chefs
49.) 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
50.) Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard
51.) 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.
Anthony Bourdain
52.) I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.
Alice Waters
53.) Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together.
Guy Fieri
From celebrities
54.) What’s the good of resisting temptation? There’ll always be more.
Mae West
55.) My weaknesses have always been food and men — in that order.
Dolly Parton
56.) 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
From authors
57.) If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkein
58.) The only thing I like better than taking about food is eating.
John Walters
59.) What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A.A. Milne
60.) The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
Maya Angelou
Foodie proverbs
61.) The belly rules the mind.
Spanish proverb
62.) One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of food with others.
African proverb
63.) What satisfies hunger is good food.
Chinese proverb
64.) A fish should swim thrice: in water, in sauce, and in wine.
German proverb
65.) A small kitchen makes a big home.
Italian proverb
We hope these foodie quotes and sayings have inspired you to make the most of your next meal. Bon appetit!
By Greg Johnson | Published 10/31/2023
