Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

- Lappe, Frances Moore

Best Quotes about Food and eating

1.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

5.

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

6.

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

Santayana, George

7.

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

Barrymore, John

8.

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

Cato The Elder

9.

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

10.

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

Orbach, Susie

11.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Lancaster, Burt

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

17.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

20.

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

Charles II

21.

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

Hitopadesa

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, English

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

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

Proverb, Turkish

27.

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

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.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

30.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

32.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

33.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

34.

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

35.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

36.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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.

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

Proverb, French

39.

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.

40.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

41.

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

Connolly, Cyril

42.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

43.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

44.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

45.

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

Proverb, Catalan

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

48.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

49.

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

Miller, Henry

50.

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

Euripides