Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Barrymore, John

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Collier, William

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, English

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.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

10.

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

Proverb, Catalan

11.

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

12.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

15.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

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

Orbach, Susie

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.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

19.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

20.

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

Connolly, Cyril

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Orwell, George

24.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

29.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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.

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

Bible

32.

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

Beard, James

33.

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

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

35.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

36.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

37.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

38.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

Hitopadesa

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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

42.

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

Saadi

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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

Socrates

49.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.