Food Quotes

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

Charles M. Schulz

"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 you like a fat kid loves cake!"

Scott Adams

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

Virginia Woolf

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."

Orson Welles

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."

Christopher Hitchens

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."

Oscar Wilde

"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."

Andrew Solomon

"Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious."

Ruth Reichl

"It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food."

Jarod Kintz, $3.33

"Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called."

Jarod Kintz

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

George Bernard Shaw

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."

W.C. Fields

"Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing."

Joss Whedon

"Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising."

Meg Cabot

"Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!"

Roald Dahl

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"

Jess C. Scott

"I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner."

Jarod Kintz

"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."

David Mamet

"Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.And it always feels good."

Lora Brody

"I am the broth of love. Make soup to me."

Jarod Kintz

"Blood may be thicker than water, but it's certainly not as thick as ketchup. Nor does it go as well with French fries."

Jarod Kintz

"Two become one when two are in love—or when the waitress asks about our dinner bill. I’ll pay next time, I promise."

Jarod Kintz

"Unreturned love is like trying to make a sandwich with one slice of bread. Don’t stress—fold it in half and love yourself."

Jarod Kintz

"I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."

John Kennedy Toole

"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

"Love is like breakfast with Mildred. Who’s Mildred? How the heck should I know? I don’t eat breakfast."

Jarod Kintz

"We made eyes at each other, and then we made love. We also made other things too, like meatloaf."

Jarod Kintz

"Empty packets of hot sauce remind me of the love I used to have for her. Now all I’m left with is this yummy taco."

Jarod Kintz

"My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around."

Dora J. Arod

"Let us embrace each other like we have the arms of two chairs. Let us dance like our legs are those of a table. We should do dinner sometime."

Jarod Kintz

"You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway."

Scott Adams

"We fell in love like two medium pizzas in one large stomach. I wish dad would have saved a few slices for us."

Jarod Kintz

"Nobody peels a banana before stabbing themselves with it. But that’s exactly how I love—dangerously."

Jarod Kintz

"Dinner was a riot, but the food was bland, so I doused it with pepper spray. The chef wanted to protest, but he didn’t, because I had the pepper spray."

Jarod Kintz

"I don’t eat Sloppy Joes. I eat Tidy Josephs."

Jarod Kintz

"I’m a little more reserved in person than people expect. But I warm up quickly, like leftovers. Meatloaf, anyone?"

Jarod Kintz

"If two heads are better than one, then what about double chins? On that note, I will help myself to seconds."

Jarod Kintz

"I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician’s ideal voter."

Jarod Kintz

"A radio in a song in an ice cream cone. Two licks for free, and the third is for sale. My favorite flavor tastes like a commercial, because it’s made with 100% natural advertisement."

Jarod Kintz

"They should make bubblegum that tastes like mashed potatoes. You know, for lovers."

Jarod Kintz

"I went to a potluck. I brought my own pot—and luck. The pot was empty, just like my promise to bring food the next time."

Jarod Kintz

"I buried the lasagna, because it was better than disposing of a dead body. I’ve been burned in a relationship, but never in an oven. I’ll try harder."

Jarod Kintz

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."

Scott Adams

"A turtle is like a lizard in a bicycle helmet, and I think that’s romantic. That reminds me, I should write a love song called, “Dinner for two—plus one."

Jarod Kintz

"Do you want some fresh tomato soup to go? I’ll put it in a mesh strainer. Oh, if only love were as easy to contain as soup in a strainer."

Jarod Kintz

"I cook. My favorite thing to make is love."

Jarod Kintz

"I think I’m mouth blind and that’s why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."

Jarod Kintz

"Is your Happy Meal full of dancing? Put a box around it and sell it to kids. They could use the exercise."

Jarod Kintz

"I’d rather fake my own fog, than fake a steamy love scene. Can I interest you in some mist? It’s homemade."

Jarod Kintz

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