Motivational Quotes

Food

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Food

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

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Eike von Repkow

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein

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

Socrates

I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.

Erica Eisdorfer

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

10.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Kirby Larson

11.

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

12.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

13.

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

Orson Welles

14.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

15.

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

Sefer Hasidim

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Mark Twain

18.

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

Michel de Montaigne

19.

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

Totie Fields

20.

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

21.

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

Mitch Hedberg

22.

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

Pearl Buck

23.

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

Gary Taubes

24.

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

M. F. K. Fisher

25.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

26.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.

Epictetus

27.

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

28.

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

Cyra McFadden

29.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

32.

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

Mark Twain

33.

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

Adelle Davis

34.

Man is what he eats.

Ludwig Feuerbach

35.

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

36.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

37.

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

Julia Child

38.

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

39.

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

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

Gary Taubes

44.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

45.

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.

John Keats

46.

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

Jules Renard

47.

It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.

Adam Scott

48.

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

49.

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

Kelly Barton

50.

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

Henry Bromel