Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Santayana, George

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Lancaster, Burt

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Butler, Samuel

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

12.

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

13.

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

Cato The Elder

14.

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

15.

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

Hitopadesa

16.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

17.

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

Proverb, Turkish

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

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

Proverb, Catalan

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Beard, James

23.

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

24.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

27.

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

Socrates

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Barrymore, John

31.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

32.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

36.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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

38.

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

Orbach, Susie

39.

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

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

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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

42.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

43.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

44.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

46.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

47.

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''

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

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

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