Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Hunger is a good cook.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Hackett, Buddy

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Euripides

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

Beard, James

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

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

Twain, Mark

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.

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

13.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

14.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

17.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

22.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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.

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

Connolly, Cyril

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Hitopadesa

28.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

29.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

30.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

31.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

32.

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

Morley, Christopher

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Catalan

35.

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

Burton

36.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Woolf, Virginia

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

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''

39.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

40.

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

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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

42.

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

43.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

44.

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

Hubbard, Kin

45.

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

46.

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

Santayana, George

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.

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

49.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas