Fun Food Quotes

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Health, Weight Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

  Julia Child

  Funny, Food, Vegetables

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

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

  Sophia Loren

  Beauty, Food, Inspiration

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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  People who love to eat are always the best people.

  Julia Child

  Love, Food, Eating Good

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• Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Food, Cooking

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• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

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• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Food, Oysters

  "Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts". Play by Woody Allen (p. 26), 1967.

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• 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

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

  Julia Child

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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  All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

  John Gunther

  Happiness, Happy, Food

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thanksgiving, Witty, Humorous

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• Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

  Enrico Caruso

  Drinking, Food, Faces

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• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Fitness, Food, Health

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• A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Food, Wine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Food, Cutting

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• High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

  Anita Manning

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Cooking

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• This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

  Julia Child

  Fun, Mistake, Food

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.261, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

  Julia Child

  Food, Taste, Baking Bread

  "How to Avoid TV Dinners While Watching TV" by Joan Barthel, The New York Times Magazine, p. 34, August 7, 1966.

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