Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Lunch is for wimps.

- Stone, Oliver

Best Quotes about Food and eating

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

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

Orwell, George

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Charles II

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

12.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

13.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

14.

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

Morley, Christopher

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

17.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Socrates

21.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

22.

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''

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

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

Connolly, Cyril

25.

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

Cato The Elder

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

29.

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

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

35.

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

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

Hackett, Buddy

37.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

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

Collier, William

42.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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.

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

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

47.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

48.

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.