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Food and Wine Quotations

20th of August 2026

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet Van Horne

“Cooking is the art of adjustment.” Jacques Pepin

“If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J.R.R. Tolkein

“A recipe has no soul, you as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.” Thomas Keller

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Federico Fellini

“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all it’s flavour.” William Cowper

“The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.” Misty May-Treanor

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C. S. Lewis

“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.” Sheila Graham

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

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” Galileo Galilei

“I like rice. Rice is great if you’re hungry and want 2,000 of something.” Mitch Hedberg

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.” H.L. Mencken

“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.” Nora Ephron

“The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure.” Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.” T.S. Eliot

“Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed. I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.” Delia Smith

“Watermelon- it’s a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.” Enrico Caruso

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” Ernestine Ulmer

“Wine is bottled poetry.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Cooking can cure almost anything.” Michelle Dockery

“Vegetables are food of the earth, but fruits taste of the heavens.” Terri Guillemets

“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.” Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.” George Ellwanger

“I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.” Maya Angelou

“Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I’m grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.” Christopher Morley

“A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of year.” William F. Longwood

“When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.” Euripides

“All sorrows are less with bread.” Miguel de Cervantes

“God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” Hippocrates

“The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.” Daniel Handler

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” Federico Fellini

“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces. Just good food from fresh ingredients.” Julia Child

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” James Beard

“Don’t Judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” George Bernard Shaw

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” Albert Einstein

“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” Benjamin Franklin

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.” Louis Pasteur

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn

“It’s more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.” Jacques Pepin

“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” Anton Chekhov

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” M.F.K. Fisher

“In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.” Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“First we eat, then we do everything else.” M.F.K. Fisher

“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” Dione Lucas

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” Ludwig Van Beethoven

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” John Gunther

“The art of preparing desserts is much more than knowing how to make recipes to perfection: it is a real gesture of love.” Ernst Knam

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” Lewis Grizzard

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf

“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.” Henry David Thoreau

“There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.” Alice B. Toklas

“Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.” Julie Andrews

“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.” Christopher Morley

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.” Marcel Boulestin

“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.” Mitch Hedberg

“Cooking is an expression that crosses boundaries.” Ranveer Brar

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” David Mamet

“Promises and pie crust are made to be broken.” Jonathan Swift

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