Food Quotes

 "Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." - Voltaire

"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 and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

"The belly rules the mind." - Spanish Proverb

"The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.  I am not alone and unacknowledged.  They nod to me and I to them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw, "The Revolutionist's Handbook", Man and Superman

"Cooking is like love.  It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." - Harriet van Horne

"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it." - Julia Childs (1912 - 2004)

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." - Doug Larson

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)

"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." - Julia Childs (1912 - 2004)