Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

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

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

Charles II

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

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

Euripides

12.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Socrates

17.

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

Saadi

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

Collier, William

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.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

26.

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.

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

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

Barrymore, John

29.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

35.

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

Proverb, Turkish

36.

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

Orbach, Susie

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Hackett, Buddy

43.

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

Lancaster, Burt

44.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

45.

Square meals often make round people.