Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

- Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Euripides

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

10.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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

Saadi

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

Proverb, Catalan

22.

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

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Proverb, French

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

27.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

28.

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

Morley, Christopher

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

37.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

38.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Collier, William

41.

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

42.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Barrymore, John

45.

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

Miller, Henry

46.

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

Orwell, George

47.

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

Lancaster, Burt

48.

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

Connolly, Cyril

49.

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.

50.

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