Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Orbach, Susie

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

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.

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

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

12.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

13.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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''

17.

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

Lancaster, Burt

18.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

21.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

22.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

Orwell, George

28.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

29.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Santayana, George

34.

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

Collier, William

35.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

36.

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

Morley, Christopher

37.

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

Beard, James

38.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

39.

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

Cato The Elder

40.

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

Hitopadesa

41.

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.

42.

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

Vries, Peter De

43.

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

44.

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

Hackett, Buddy

45.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Proverb, English

47.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

48.

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

49.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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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