Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

- Lappe, Frances Moore

Best Quotes about Food and eating

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Euripides

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Proverb, Turkish

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Socrates

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

10.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Munro, Hector Hugh

11.

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Foxx, Redd

12.

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.

Cooke, Alistair

13.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

14.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

15.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.

Beard, James

16.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

17.

It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.

Proverb, Catalan

18.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.

Winter, Arthur

20.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

21.

When one has tasted it [Watermelon] he knows what the angels eat.

Twain, Mark

22.

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Francis De Sales, St.

23.

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Bible

26.

Avoid fresh meats, which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light in the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Don't look back. Someone might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.

Maximus, Tyrius

29.

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

Dangerfield, Rodney

30.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Hobbes, Thomas

31.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Orwell, George

32.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Saadi

33.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Hubbard, Kin

36.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Miller, Henry

37.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

38.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

39.

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder

41.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverb, Hebrew

42.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

44.

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

Proverb, New England

45.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

46.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

47.

Never eat anything you can't lift.