The 24 Greatest Quotes Anyone Has Ever Said About Food

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If you talk about food just as much as you eat it, you're in good company. We've got famous chefs and stars—Julia Child, Sophia Loren, Virginia Woolf—to thank for some of the greatest food quotes of all time. Do what you will with these: Memorize them, pin them, or print them out and tack them up all over your kitchen.

Orson Welles

"My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."

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Dolly Parton

"My weaknesses have always been food and men—in that order."

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Ernestine Ulmer

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

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John Gunther

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."

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Thomas Keller

"A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."

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Paul Prudhomme

"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food."

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Coco Chanel

"I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not."

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Barbara Johnson

"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand."

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Harriet Van Horne

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

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Julia Child

"People who love to eat are always the best people."

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Fran?ois de la Rochefoucauld

"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."

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Anna Thomas

"We all eat, an it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly."

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Cesar Chavez

"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...the people who give you their food give you their heart."

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Judith Olney

"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt."

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Voltaire

"Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal."

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Guy Fieri

"Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together."

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Julia Child

"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook."

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Irish Proverb

"Laughter is brightest where food is best."

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Federico Fellini

"Life is a combination of magic and pasta."

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Lewis Grizzard

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."

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Virginia Woolf

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if not has not dined well."

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Sophia Loren

"Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti."

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Unknown

"Age and glasses of wine should never be counted."

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W.C. Fields

"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food."

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