Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Never eat anything you can't lift.

- Piggy, Miss

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hitopadesa

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Orwell, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Barrymore, John

16.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

17.

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

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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''

19.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

20.

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

Lancaster, Burt

21.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

22.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

23.

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

Collier, William

24.

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

25.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

28.

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

Orbach, Susie

29.

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.

30.

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

Beard, James

31.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

32.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

33.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

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

Miller, Henry

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, English

37.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

38.

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

Hackett, Buddy

39.

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

Proverb, French

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

42.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

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

44.

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

Saadi

45.

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

Socrates

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

49.

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

50.

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