Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Food and eating

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Beard, James

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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

Saadi

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

Bible

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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

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

Woolf, Virginia

11.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

13.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

14.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

15.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

17.

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

Barrymore, John

18.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

19.

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

Orwell, George

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

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

Vries, Peter De

23.

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

24.

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

Orbach, Susie

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.

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

27.

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

Cato The Elder

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

31.

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''

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

34.

Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

Ferber, Edna

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.

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

37.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

38.

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

Collier, William

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Catalan

41.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Turkish

44.

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

Hitopadesa

45.

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

Charles II

46.

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

47.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin

50.

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

Proverb, Hebrew