Anthony Bourdain Quotes

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

Just take each race as it comes and have fun.

My life at home gives me absolute joy. Having so much time there with the family has just been incredible. My life has changed and I work less, but I was never really one to work too much.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.

We must remember to enjoy ourselves.

I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.