Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

- Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

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

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''

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

Barrymore, John

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

10.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

11.

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

Saadi

12.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

13.

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

14.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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.

16.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Gilbert, W. S.

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Euripides

22.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

23.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

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

Proverb, Turkish

29.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

30.

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

Orwell, George

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

37.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

38.

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

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.

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

41.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

42.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

43.

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

44.

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

Charles II

45.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

46.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

47.

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

Connolly, Cyril

48.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

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.

50.

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

Morley, Christopher