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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Woolf, Virginia

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Hackett, Buddy

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Lebowitz, Fran

10.

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

Saadi

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Barrymore, John

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

18.

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

Miller, Henry

19.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

20.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Charles II

27.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Lancaster, Burt

29.

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''

30.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

31.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

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

33.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

38.

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

Proverb, Catalan

39.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

40.

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

Orbach, Susie

41.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

44.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

49.

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

Beard, James

50.

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

Hubbard, Kin