William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet

The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness. And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Food Quote - Sheila Graham

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
~ Sheila Graham

Food Quote - Laiko Bahrs

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs

Food Quote - Will Rogers

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. ~Will Rogers

Food Quote - Jonathan Swift

This is every cook's opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
~Jonathan Swift

Food Quote - Alfred E. Newman

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

Food Quote - Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti

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

Food Quote - Julia Child

You don΄t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
- Julia Child (US cook & cookbook author)

Food Quote - Geoffrey Neighor

Good food ends with good talk.

- Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

Food Quote - Virginia Woolf

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
A Room of One's Own (1929)
Literature > Virginia Woolf

Food Quote - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body"

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Food Quote - Adelle Davis

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
-Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)

Food Quote - George Meredith

Kissing don't last; cookery do! ~George Meredith

Food quote by M.F.K.Fisher

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly - M. F. K. Fisher