Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Miller, Henry

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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.

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

Proverb, French

11.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

13.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

14.

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

Proverb, Catalan

15.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

16.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

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.

21.

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

Santayana, George

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.

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

24.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

25.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

26.

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

27.

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

Hackett, Buddy

28.

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

Proverb, Turkish

29.

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

Barrymore, John

30.

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

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

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

33.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

34.

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

35.

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

Charles II

36.

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

Allen, Woody

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

40.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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