Motivational Quotes

Food

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

- P. J. O'Rourke

Best Quotes about Food

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

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

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Adelle Davis

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

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

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Orson Welles

13.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

14.

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

Eike von Repkow

15.

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

Gary Taubes

16.

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

Jules Renard

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Mark Twain

19.

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

Cyra McFadden

20.

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

21.

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

22.

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

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

Totie Fields

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

Kelly Barton

25.

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

26.

There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

Sean Stewart

27.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

28.

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

Kirby Larson

29.

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

Mark Twain

30.

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

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Socrates

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

35.

Man is what he eats.

Ludwig Feuerbach

36.

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

Mitch Hedberg

37.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

41.

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

Henry Bromel

42.

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

43.

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

44.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy

45.

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

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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

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

Sefer Hasidim

48.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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