Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

- Burton

Best Quotes about Food and eating

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Hebrew

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

Charles II

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Connolly, Cyril

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Goodman, Paul

10.

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

11.

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

Berra, Yogi

12.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Byron, Lord

13.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

14.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

Hackett, Buddy

15.

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

Euripides

16.

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

17.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Steinem, Gloria

18.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

19.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Bryson, Bill

21.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

23.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Schiaparelli, Elsa

24.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

25.

The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.

Collier, William

26.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

27.

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

28.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Santayana, George

29.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Orwell, George

31.

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

Hitopadesa

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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.

35.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

36.

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

Miller, Henry

37.

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

38.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

40.

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

Saadi

41.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

43.

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

Hubbard, Kin

44.

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

Burton

45.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

Barrymore, John

46.

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

Benjamin, Walter

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

49.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

50.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.