Eating Quotes and Sayings

These is our collection of our favorite quotes and sayings about eating. Some are wise words about eating and some of them are just some stupid funny eating quotes.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
~ Benjamin Franklin

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
~N.F. Simpson

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
~Miguel de Cervantes

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
~ George Herbert

The consummate pleasure in eating is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
~Horace

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
~Marcus Valerius Martial

Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
~ William Shakespeare

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
~ Horace

Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils.
~Old proverb

He who eats alone chokes alone.
~Proverb

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

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people.
~Elizabeth Berry

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
~Cervantes

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

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
~Chinese Proverb

And solid pudding against empty praise.
~ Alexander Pope

You don’t get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what’s eating you.
~Vicki Baum

A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen.
~Emily Lotney

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
~ Socrates

You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
~George Carlin

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
~Channing Pollock

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
~Denis Leary

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

Worries go down better with soup.
~Jewish Proverb

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
~ Aldous Huxley

And people coming up asking for autographs, there’s only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I’m eating.
~Enrique Iglesias

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
~John Gunther

The belly rules the mind.
~Spanish Proverb

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
~Creighton Abrams

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
~Malcolm De Chazal

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~ Fran Lebowitz

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
~French Prover

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
~ Jonathan Swift

Eating words has never given me indigestion.
~ Winston Churchill

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

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
~ Josh Billings

Acorns were good till bread was found.
~ Francis Bacon

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
~Richard Armour

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
~William Shakespeare

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
~Miguel de Cervantes

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