Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Hitopadesa

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bible

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Orwell, George

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

Saadi

10.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

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

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

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

Orbach, Susie

14.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

15.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

18.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

21.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

22.

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.

23.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Charles II

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

31.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

32.

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

33.

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

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.

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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

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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

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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.

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

Proverb, Catalan

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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.

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

42.

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

Hackett, Buddy

43.

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

44.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

Woolf, Virginia

47.

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

48.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

49.

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

Morley, Christopher

50.

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