Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cato The Elder

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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Euripides

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

Socrates

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

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

Collier, William

12.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Saadi

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

16.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

17.

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

Proverb, Catalan

18.

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

19.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

22.

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

Miller, Henry

23.

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

Proverb, French

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Turkish

27.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

28.

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

29.

Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.

Maximus, Tyrius

30.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

Hitopadesa

35.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

39.

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

40.

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''

41.

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.

42.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

44.

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.

45.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Woolf, Virginia

47.

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

48.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

49.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

50.

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