Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Lebowitz, Fran

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hitopadesa

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

Saadi

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.

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

11.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Socrates

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

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

16.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Barrymore, John

20.

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

Santayana, George

21.

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.

22.

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

Proverb, Turkish

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

30.

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

31.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

32.

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

33.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Woolf, Virginia

35.

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

Proverb, Catalan

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.

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.

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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

39.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

43.

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

44.

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

Orwell, George

45.

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

Charles II

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

49.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

50.

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

Lancaster, Burt