Motivational Quotes

Food

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

- Adelle Davis

Best Quotes about Food

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when youÆre alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartmentÆs redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.

Waiter Rant

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Adelle Davis

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

Dorothy Draper

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Lucretius

My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.

Edward Ugel

10.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

11.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

12.

Fat people, it is commonly held, should be punished because they offend our aesthetic sensibilities. They take up too much space on subways, buses, airplanes, and elevators. They consume more than they contribute to society. They become ill and need to be taken care of, or they die early and their families are left unsupported. The only way fat people can gain some acceptance and forgiveness for their crime of overeating is to at least try, or look like they are trying, to lose weight. They must never eat an ice cream cone in public, never be seen eating a normal sized portion of non-diet food!

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

13.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Adelle Davis

14.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

15.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Mark Twain

16.

The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When it comes to healthy eating, people who know how to cook and make ingredients taste good have a distinct advantage over those who can't.

Edward Ugel

17.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said,'I'd like some fries.'The girl at the counter said,'Would you like some fries with that?'

Jay Leno

18.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

Sefer Hasidim

20.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

21.

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

22.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy

23.

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

Molly Wizenberg

24.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles

25.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

27.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

Cyra McFadden

28.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

William Shakespeare

29.

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

Mitch Hedberg

30.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Henry Bromel

31.

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.

Kelly Barton

32.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

33.

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor

34.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Julia Child

35.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Totie Fields

36.

Man is what he eats.

Ludwig Feuerbach

37.

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

38.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher

39.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

40.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

Fernand Point

41.

We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.

Gary Taubes

42.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates

43.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

44.

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]