Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Twain, Mark

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

10.

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

11.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

14.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

17.

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

Orbach, Susie

18.

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

Charles II

19.

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

Cato The Elder

20.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Lebowitz, Fran

21.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Bryson, Bill

23.

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

Santayana, George

24.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Miller, Henry

28.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Beard, James

30.

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

Saadi

31.

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

Proverb, Turkish

32.

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

Barrymore, John

33.

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

Collier, William

34.

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

Euripides

35.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

37.

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

Bible

38.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

47.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Proverb, Catalan

49.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

50.

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