Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Collier, William

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

Hitopadesa

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Connolly, Cyril

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

10.

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

Socrates

11.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

12.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

17.

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

Proverb, Turkish

18.

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

19.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

24.

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

Santayana, George

25.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

28.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

29.

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

30.

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

Miller, Henry

31.

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

Orbach, Susie

32.

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

Barrymore, John

33.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Lancaster, Burt

38.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

39.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

40.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

Charles II

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Proverb, Catalan

44.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Morley, Christopher

46.

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

Orwell, George

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, English

49.

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

50.

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

Allen, Woody