Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Vries, Peter De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Saadi

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

Twain, Mark

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

Collier, William

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

Santayana, George

16.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Charles II

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Turkish

21.

Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

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

Butler, Samuel

24.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Lebowitz, Fran

25.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

26.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

27.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

28.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Khrushchev, Nikita

29.

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

30.

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

31.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Fadiman, Clifton

32.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

36.

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

37.

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

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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''

39.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

40.

We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Orbach, Susie

41.

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

Hubbard, Kin

42.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

44.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

45.

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

46.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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

48.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

Bush, George

49.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

50.

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