Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

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

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

Cato The Elder

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

Steinem, Gloria

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

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Barrymore, John

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.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Catalan

16.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

17.

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

18.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Beard, James

22.

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

23.

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

Charles II

24.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Woolf, Virginia

28.

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

Proverb, French

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

36.

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

37.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

38.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

45.

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

Vries, Peter De

46.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

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

Collier, William

48.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

49.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

50.

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.