Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Beard, James

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Bible

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

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

Hackett, Buddy

13.

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

Charles II

14.

Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

Ferber, Edna

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Saadi

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

24.

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

Morley, Christopher

25.

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

Santayana, George

26.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

27.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

28.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

29.

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

30.

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

Collier, William

31.

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

32.

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

Miller, Henry

33.

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

34.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

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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.

38.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

39.

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

40.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

41.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

42.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

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

45.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

46.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

47.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.