1. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa 

2. Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. - W. C. Fields 

3. 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. - Cesar Chavez

 4. Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. - Erma Bombeck 

5. Food simply isn't important to me. - Alice Paul 

6. 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 

7. I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. - Benjamin Franklin

8. Beware the hobby that eats. - Benjamin Franklin 

9. I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. - Oscar Wilde 

10. The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. - Maya Angelou 

11. Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. - Maya Angelou 

12. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf 

13. You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. - Ronald Reagan 

14. It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. - Ronald Reagan 

15. Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. - Mitch Hedberg 

16. A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. - Mitch Hedberg 

17. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw 

18. Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw 

19. Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. - George Bernard Shaw 

20. Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. - Audrey Hepburn 

21. Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. - Robin Williams 

22. My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. - Dolly Parton 

23. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. - Yogi Berra 

24. We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. - George Orwell 

25. I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck 

26. Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. - Erma Bombeck 

27. Never order food in excess of your body weight. - Erma Bombeck 

28. A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. - Lord Byron 

29. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. - Hippocrates 

30. It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. - Kurt Cobain 

31. I won't eat anything green. - Kurt Cobain 

32. A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop 

33. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. - Leo Tolstoy 

34. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. - Woody Allen 

35. Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. - Woody Allen 

36. Wine is bottled poetry. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

37. I could talk food all day. I love good food. - Tom Brady 

38. Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. - Ludwig van Beethoven 

39. My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz 

40. If you're going to America, bring your own food. - Fran Lebowitz 

41. If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. - W. Somerset Maugham 

42. I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable. - Demetri Martin 

43. So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. - Franz Kafka 

44. When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. - Euripides 

45. I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. - Andy Rooney 

46. Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. - Dave Barry

47. The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins. - Dave Barry 

48. Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits. - Anthony Bourdain 

49. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. - Jonathan Swift 

50. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. - Jonathan Swift 

51. An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need. - Ezra Taft Benson 

52. Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds. - Joan Rivers 

53. Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. - Sophia Loren 

54. A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. - James Joyce 55. Italy will always have the best food. - Diane von Furstenberg 

56. The most dangerous food is wedding cake. - James Thurber 

57. My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. - David Byrne 

58. I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. - Julia Child 

59. In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

60. You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it. - Julia Child 

61. Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. - Julia Child 

62. I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. - Bill Watterson 

63. Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler 

64. More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. - John Kenneth Galbraith 

65. If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? - Martin Scorsese 

66. We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it. - Ray Kroc 67. I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat. - Tyra Banks 

68. I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips. - Tyra Banks 

69. Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. - Robert Redford 

70. One should eat to live, not live to eat. - Moliere 

71. I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne. - Alan Alda 

72. Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. - Sai Baba 

73. Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. - Michael Pollan

 74. People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. - Michael Pollan 

75. If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? - John Cleese 

76. My idea of fast food is a mallard. - Ted Nugent 

77. Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak. - Ted Nugent

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

79. It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. - Lewis Grizzard 

80. I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top. - Yotam Ottolenghi 

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

 82. I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President. - William J. Clinton 

83. The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. - Cyril Connolly 

84. Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables. - Nat King Cole 

85. Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. - Frank A. Clark 

86. You can't make a souffle rise twice. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth 

87. I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. - Calvin Trillin 

88. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin 

89. Food should be fun. - Thomas Keller 

90. LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. - Henry Fielding 

91. If food were free, why work? - Douglas Horton 

92. Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before. - Marilyn vos Savant 

93. Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. - Andrew Weil 

94. My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis. - Emeril Lagasse 

95. Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. - Norman Borlaug 

96. The French cook; we open tins. - John Galsworthy 

97. Miss Child is never bashful with butter. - Phil Donahue 

98. Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. - Quintilian 

99. A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time. - Octavia E. Butler 

100. I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. - John Barrymore