Quotes About Food and Drink

"If this is coffee, please bring me
some tea; if this is tea, please
bring me some coffee."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Coffee has two virtues:
it is wet and warm."
-- Dutch Saying

"Black as the devil, hot as hell,
pure as an angel, sweet as love."
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"Decaffeinated coffee is kind
of like kissing your sister."
-- Bob Irwin

"Without my morning coffee
I'm just like a dried up
piece of roast goat."
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

"Strength is the capacity to break
a chocolate bar into four pieces
with your bare hands -- and
then eat just one of the pieces."
-- Judith Viorst

"Food is our common ground,
a universal experience."
-- James Beard

"A gourmet who thinks
of calories is like a tart
who looks at her watch."
-- James A. Beard

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

"A chocolate in the mouth is worth two on the plate."
-- Anonymous

"There's nothing better than a good friend,
except a good friend with CHOCOLATE."
-- Linda Grayson

"Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!"
-- Anonymous

"All I really need is love,
but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
-- Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)"

"Chocolate is good for three things. Two of 'em
cannot be mentioned on public television."
-- Anonymous

"Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food."
-- Michael Levine

"I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process....
It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?"
-- Anonymous

"Stress wouldn’t be so hard to take if it were chocolate covered."
-- Anonymous

"Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can."
-- Anonymous

"I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter."
-- Anonymous

"Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos."
-- Don Kardong

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
-- Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"

"Tea should be taken in solitude."
-- C.S. Lewis

"Tea is liquid wisdom."
-- Anonymous

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