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

“Kissing don’t last: cookery do.”
George Meredith

“If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.”
Tom Jaine

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”
Thomas Wolfe

“Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better.”
Unknown

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.”
Rosalind Russell

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
W. C. Fields

“In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it.”
Native American Proverb

“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist— the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one’s vinegar.”
Oscar Wilde

“’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
William Shakespeare

“To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.”
Emily Post

“Hell is a place where all the cooks are British.”
Euro–joke quoted in Business Week (November 6, 1995).

“Good cooks never lack friends.”
Unknown

“All cooking is a matter of time. In general, the more time the better.”
John Erskine

“Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.”
Dalai Lama

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”
Mark Twain

“Fervet olla, vivit amicitia: While the pot boils, friendship endures.” (Meaning the man who gives good dinners has plenty of friends).
Latin Proverb

“I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.”
Madam Benoit

“What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”
Nora Ephron