Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Square meals often make round people.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Hitopadesa

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Beard, James

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

Santayana, George

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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''

10.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

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.

12.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

13.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

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

15.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

16.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

17.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

18.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

23.

Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.

Maximus, Tyrius

24.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Vries, Peter De

28.

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

Barrymore, John

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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.

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Robbins, Anthony

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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.

Cooke, Alistair

34.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

35.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

36.

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

37.

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

Euripides

38.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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.

40.

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

Proverb, Catalan

41.

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

Orbach, Susie

42.

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

Cato The Elder

43.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

44.

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

Morley, Christopher

45.

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

46.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

47.

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

Lancaster, Burt

48.

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

49.

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

Connolly, Cyril

50.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss