Comfort Quotes: Notable Notes About Food, Wine, Love, Sex and More Food

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin." ~ Mark Twain

"Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry." ~ John Keats

"It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal." ~ Kirby Lawson, Hattie Big Sky

"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly." ~ M.F.K. Fisher

A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it. ~ Raelle Tucker, True Blood, Ground Zero

"If music be the food of love, play on." ~ Shakespeare

"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

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

"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

"I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history ." ~ Bob Ehrlich

"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. " ~ Mason Cooley

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite." ~ Mignon McLaughlin

"Great Food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want." ~ Gael Greene

“The lion is most handsome when looking for food” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi quotes

"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust." ~ Anacharsis

"Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating." ~ Norman Douglas

"Wine is bottled poetry." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners." ~ Andre Simon

"If Penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life." ~ Sir Alexander Fleming

"Compromises are for relationships, not wine" ~ Sir Robert Scott Caywood

"Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating" ~ Leo Buscaglia

"He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long" ~ Johann Heinrich Voss

"Though art to me delicious torment" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with it's sweetness" ~ Amy Lowell

"There is no site on earth more appealing than the site of a woman making dinner forsomeone she loves" ~ Thomas Wolfe

"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 "Heartburn"

"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love,
are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think
of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I
am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the
love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness
and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one." ~ M.F.K. Fisher

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry tree" ~ Pablo Neruda

"It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden." ~ Elizabeth Browning

"Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened Mango" Srzgarakarika