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

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Santayana, George

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

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

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

Charles II

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

16.

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

17.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

18.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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''

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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

Proverb, English

22.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

23.

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

Miller, Henry

24.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

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

Proverb, Catalan

30.

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

Morley, Christopher

31.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

32.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

34.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

35.

Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Bible

36.

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

Cato The Elder

37.

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

Hitopadesa

38.

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

Beard, James

39.

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

Socrates

40.

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.

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.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

43.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

44.

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

Collier, William

45.

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

Allen, Woody

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

48.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

49.

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

50.

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.