15 Best Food Quotes, including Mark Twain

Here’s a compiled list of the 15 Best Food Quotes we’ve seen.  Yes, Mark Twain is included.  He had something to say about everything, including food.

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Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!
~James Beard

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
~ Epicurus

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

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
~ Mark Twain

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
~ Confucius

Worries go down better with soup.
~ Jewish Proverb

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.
~ Garrison Keillor

Rice is born in water and must die in wine.
~ Italian Proverb

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
~ Lin Yutang

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

Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
~ Thomas Wolfe

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times – in water, in butter, and in wine.
~ Polish Proverb

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: “I don’t like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate.”
~ Author Unknown

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

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