These lunch quotes will inspire you. Lunch is a light meal, especially when eaten in the middle of the day or a meal eaten in the middle of the day, typically one that is lighter or less formal than an evening meal.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging lunch quotes, lunch sayings, and lunch proverbs.
Best Lunch Quotes
- “Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.” ~ Peter the Great
- “When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “It’s nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.” ~ Karlie Kloss
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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.” ~ L’Wren Scott
- “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” ~ Orson Welles
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“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” ~ Adelle Davis
- “People who say they’re too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.” ~ John Howard
- “We must have courage, faith, and lunch together sometime soon.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
- “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “Energy is food. Most people on earth feed on each other’s energy, all of the time, seven days a week. The more energy you have, the more interested parties there will be in having lunch.” ~ Frederick Lenz
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“If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything” ~ Robert Johnson
- “I don’t think we are here for anything. We’re just products of evolution. You can say, “Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.” But I’m anticipating a good lunch.” ~ James D. Watson
- “I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.” ~ Warren Christopher
- “A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Mmmm! Lunch and no cleanup! Can life get better? I submit that it can NOT!” ~ Brian Regan
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“There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently, they live a long time.” ~ Elaine Stritch
- “Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.” ~ George S. Kaufman
- “Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.” ~ Darren Hardy
- “More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.” ~ Baron de Montesquieu
- “If you’re given champagne at lunch, there’s a catch somewhere.” ~ Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
- “A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner.” ~ Robert Goulet
- “One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.” ~ Edouard de Pomiane
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“When you start having lunch and actually eating, it’s already over.” ~ Erica Jong
- “Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.” ~ W. C. Fields
- “From a parent’s right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.” ~ Virginia Foxx
- “Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.” ~ Kevin J. Anderson
- “There’s no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch…or someone gives you a lunch…never mind.” ~ John Adams
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“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” ~ William Ruckelshaus
- “Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.” ~ Joan D. Vinge
- “I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.” ~ Hugh Laurie
- “When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.” ~ William Feather
- “I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.” ~ Adele , Lunch quotes with friends
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“Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.” ~ Shelley Winters
- “I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
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“Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.” ~ Jilly Cooper
- “When you fall asleep after a big lunch you’re really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.” ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
- “My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.” ~ Eric Sykes
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“I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.” ~ Donna Leon
- “I’m a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.” ~ Lydia Lunch
- “Caesar salad is one of my favorite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.” ~ Janet Street-Porter
- “The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, ‘You know what? Let’s just grab lunch.'” ~ Bill Maher
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“We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.” ~ Grace Napolitano
- “Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.” ~ Tim Berners-Lee
- “In France, you’re with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It’s more like a family.” ~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
- “The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.” ~ Harry Anderson
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“I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.” ~ Courtney Summers
- “A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.” ~ Chris Bradford
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“When you have something for breakfast, you’re not going to be starving by lunch.” ~ Bruce Barton
- “Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body…I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.” ~ Mark Indelicato
- “I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.” ~ Tina Yothers , Lunch quotes with family
- “I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.” ~ Richard Serra
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“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” ~ W. Clement Stone
- “Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.” ~ Lydia Lunch
- “For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.” ~ James Herriot
