Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

To eat is human, to digest divine.

- Copeland, Charles T.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

Proverb, New England

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Mcclinton, Delbert

13.

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

Charles II

14.

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

Miller, Henry

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Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

Ferber, Edna

16.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

18.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

19.

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.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

22.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.

Beard, James

23.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

24.

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

Saadi

25.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

30.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.

Kurnitz, Harry

31.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

32.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Socrates

33.

Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.

Winter, Arthur

34.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

35.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Orwell, George

37.

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

38.

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

Orbach, Susie

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It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.

Proverb, Catalan

40.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

42.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

43.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Morley, Christopher

44.

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

45.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.

Allen, Woody

46.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

47.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De