Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

- Hackett, Buddy

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Miller, Henry

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

Saadi

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lebowitz, Fran

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Proverb, Catalan

12.

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

13.

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

Orwell, George

14.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

15.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

19.

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

Beard, James

20.

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

Santayana, George

21.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

22.

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

23.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

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

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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.

Hackett, Buddy

27.

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

28.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

29.

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

Proverb, Turkish

30.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

Charles II

33.

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.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

35.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.

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

42.

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

Orbach, Susie

43.

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

Morley, Christopher

44.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

45.

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

Socrates

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Proverb, French

50.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian