Food is a necessity in life. But for food lovers, the aroma, flavors, and appearance are also essential. If you’re ready to laugh, read funny food quotes.
The world is full of tasty foods and cuisines.
Culture plays a significant role in what and when you eat.
But you can explore other foods and find some you love.
Whether a foodie or food lover, read funny food quotes to get a good laugh.
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Hilarious food quotes
1. “Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” -Ernestine Ulmer
2. “I cook with wine. Sometimes, I even add it to the food.” -W.C. Fields
3. “My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” -Orson Welles
4. “Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.” -Gael Greene
5. “People who love to eat are always the best people.” -Julia Child
6. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” -Jim Davis
7. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” -Doug Larson
8. “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” -John Gunther
9. “There’s not a better feeling in the world than a warm pizza on your lap.” -Kevin James
10. “I just want someone to look at me the way I look at food.” -Unknown
11. “Unless you are a pizza, the answer is yes, I can live without you.” -Bill Murray
12. “There’s nothing better than cake but more cake.” -Harry S. Truman
13. “I get way too much happiness from good food.” -Elizabeth Olsen
14. “He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.” -Samuel Johnson
15. “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.” -Judith Viorst
16. “The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” -Julia Child
17. “A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” -Barbara Johnson
18. “Never eat more than you can lift.” -Miss Piggy
19. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” -Charles Schulz
20. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” -Orson Welles
21. “Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt.” -Judith Olney
22. “Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza.” -Andrew W.K.
23. “I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” -Erma Bombeck
24. “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” –Ludwig van Beethoven
25. “My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.” -David Byrne
26. “Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” -Robert Redford
27. “I won’t eat anything green.” -Kurt Cobain
28. “Primarily I’m a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.” -Nat King Cole
29. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf
30. “I won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple.” -Bill Watterson
31. “The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.” -Maya Angelou
32. “As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay.” -Michael Chang
33. “You know, food is such – it’s a hug for people.” -Rachael Ray
34. “I don’t want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.” -Paula Deen
35. “First we eat, then we do everything else.” -M. F. K. Fisher
36. “I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.” -Coco Chanel
37. “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.” -Sophia Loren
38. “I need healthy options around, or else if I get hungry, I’ll go straight for a cookie.” -Christina Tosi
39. “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” -Barack Obama
40. “Life is too short, and I’m Italian. I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.” -Sophia Bush
41. “Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.” -Joss Whedon
42. “I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.” -Jocko Willink
43. “Food is celebratory. People who don’t cook don’t know how much fun they’re missing.” -Leo Buscaglia
44. “I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing.” -Taylor Swift
45. “If I’m going to eat fast food, I’m going to McDonald’s. I don’t need to pretend.” -Chrissy Teigen
46. “I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I’m not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain’t sharing.” -Dwayne Johnson
47. “I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.” -Lara Stone
48. “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” -Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
49. “I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.” -Sandra Bullock
50. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw
51. “Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.” -Erma Bombeck
52. “Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.” -Jonathan Swift
53. “In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.” -Martin Yan
54. “Nothing grounds you like a real authentic Mexican taco.” -Borns
55. “I always say, ‘Eat clean to stay fit; have a burger to stay sane.'” -Gigi Hadid
56. “Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.” -Robert Orben
57. “If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.” -Gilbert Gottfried
58. “My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.” -Katie Lee
59. “Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.” -Jo Brand
60. “Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life.” -Jeffrey Steingarten
61. “I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.” -Scarlett Johansson
62. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” -Fran Lebowitz
63. “I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.” -Rodney Dangerfield
64. “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” -M. F. K. Fisher
65. “Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.” -Mitch Hedberg
66. “The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.” -Pat Buchanan
67. “Wine is bottled poetry.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
68. “I could talk food all day. I love good food.” -Tom Brady
69. “Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.” -Josh Hutcherson
70. “I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they’re either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.” -Frank Bruni
71. “Every day is National Doughnut Day if you put your mind to it.” -Unknown
72. “Food is my drug of choice.” -Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
73. “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” -Yogi Berra
74. “You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.” -Ronald Reagan
75. “Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.” -Audrey Hepburn
76. “You can’t make everyone happy. You’re not pizza.” -Unknown
77. “So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” -Franz Kafka
78. “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” -Jonathan Swift
79. “Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.” -Dean Koontz
80. “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.” -David Auerbach
81. Fries before guys… and pretty much everything else.” -Unknown
82. “Initially let your food do the talking. You’ll be surprised how far you go in a short period of time.” -Gordon Ramsay
83. “When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued on food.” -Ogden Nash
84. “I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.” -Robert Mondavi
85. “A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.” -George Orwell
86. “Home is wherever I’m with food.” -Unknown
87. “Eating good food is my favourite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful.” -Justine Larbalestier
88. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” -Mark Twain
89. “Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.” -Irish Proverb
90. “Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.” -James Patterson
91. “I’m pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10-year-old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.” -Amy Neftzger
92. “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” -Federico Fellini
93. “A party without cake is just a meeting.” -Julia Child
94. “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” -Erma Bombeck
95. “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.” -Oscar Wilde
96. “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” -Harriet Van Horne
97. “The only think I like better than talking about food is eating.” -John Walters
98. “Ice cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.” -Voltaire
99. “I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.” -Erma Bombeck
100. “Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.” -Marilyn Wann
101. “You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” -Paul Prudhomme
102. “My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.” -Dolly Parton
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