Sometimes, reading just the right phrasing of words or some best food quotes is all you need to brighten your day.
When you’re trying to lose weight, one of the smartest and easiest steps you can take is to keep a food diary with below listed food quotes.
When a person is on a “diet” it is like a statement to everyone around them that they are trying to lose weight.
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We love a well crafted phrase, and we typically schedule food quotes across Twitter and Pinterest all the time, mostly because we loved sipping our morning coffee and getting a little chuckle out of something that we read.
1. As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
– Buddy Hackett
2. 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
3. Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
4. Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
5. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
– Channing Pollock
6. High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Super squash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
– Annita Manning
7. The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.
– Beatrice & Ira Freeman
8. Vegetables are interesting, but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
– Fran Lebowitz
9. In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
– José Simons
10. When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
– Laiko Bahr
11. We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
– William Osler
12. A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
– Old New York Proverb
13. Sleep ’til you’re hungry, eat ’til you’re sleepy.
14. Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.
– Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
15. Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.
Jim Davis
16. Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
– Fran Lebowitz
17. I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
– N.F. Simpson
18. Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
– Josh Billings
19. A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed.
– George Rosenbaum
20. There is no such thing as a little garlic.
– A. Baer
21. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
– Henry IV of France
22. No one is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
– Christopher Morley
23. It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
– Lewis Grizzard
24. After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual “food” out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.
– Miss Piggy
25. I don’t think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we’re stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians.
– Pat McNelis
26. Fish, to taste right, must swim three times – in water, in butter, and in wine.
– Polish Proverb
27. The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
– Confucius
28. A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
– James Beard
29. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
– George Bernard Shaw
30. Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
– Doug Larson
31. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
– John Gunther
32. Worries go down better with soup.
– Jewish Proverb
33. My favorite animal is steak.
– Fran Lebowitz
34. Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!
– Tommy Smothers
35. We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.
– Steve Elbert
36. It would be nice if the FDA stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.
– Gore Vidal
37. Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
– Fran Lebowitz
38. It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.
– Meryl Streep
39. We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors, and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
– Alfred E. Newman
40. If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.
– Linda Henley
41. It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
– Julia Child
42. If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food.
– Sally Edwards
43. There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.
– Robert Frost
44. Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
– George Bernard Shaw
45. I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.
– Martha Harrison
46. Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
– Mark Twain
47. We load up on oat bran in the morning so we’ll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there’s no tomorrow.
– Lee Iacocca
48. You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
– Charles Kuralt
49. Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don’t own, to make a dish the dog wouldn’t eat
50. I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
– Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
51. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead – not sick, not wounded – dead.
– Woody Allen
52. Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
– Cervantes
53. Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!
– James Beard
54. Great food is like great sex. The more you have, the more you want.
– Gael Greene
55. You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you’re apt to be a hermit.
– Franklin P. Jones
56. Cold beer and pizza are spiritual.
– Betsy Cañas Garmon
57. We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
– Epicurus
58. He who eats alone chokes alone.
– Proverb
59. After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile.
– English Saying
60. The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.
– English Saying
61. Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution.
– Irwin Van Grove
62. The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.
– Mignon McLaughlin
63. You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tabasco.
– Bruce Bye
64. The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them.
– Vince Staten
65. Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens.
– Sepal Felicivant
66. An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
– Will Rogers
67. Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage.
– Lettuce prays
68. If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?
69. He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.
– James I
70. As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
– Tom Mason
71. Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
72. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
– Mark Twain
73. A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do.
– P.J. O’Rourke
74. Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.
– Jay Leno
75. I’m not sure what makes pepperoni so good – if it’s the pepper or the oni.
– Ulrik Stephen
