Motivational Quotes

Food

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]

- Eike von Repkow

Best Quotes about Food

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

Sefer Hasidim

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.

Gary Taubes

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

W. Somerset Maugham

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.

Epictetus

The people who can most successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy life style are foodies. When it comes to healthy eating, people who know how to cook and make ingredients taste good have a distinct advantage over those who can't.

Edward Ugel

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Julia Child

10.

There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

Sean Stewart

11.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles

12.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan

13.

It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.

Adam Scott

14.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

15.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

Dorothy Draper

16.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

Cyra McFadden

17.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

18.

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

19.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

20.

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor

21.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Totie Fields

22.

I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when youÆre alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartmentÆs redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.

Waiter Rant

23.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

William Shakespeare

24.

Fat people, it is commonly held, should be punished because they offend our aesthetic sensibilities. They take up too much space on subways, buses, airplanes, and elevators. They consume more than they contribute to society. They become ill and need to be taken care of, or they die early and their families are left unsupported. The only way fat people can gain some acceptance and forgiveness for their crime of overeating is to at least try, or look like they are trying, to lose weight. They must never eat an ice cream cone in public, never be seen eating a normal sized portion of non-diet food!

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

25.

My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.

Edward Ugel

26.

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]

Eike von Repkow

27.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Henry Bromel

28.

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Lucretius

29.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Kirby Larson

30.

I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.

Erica Eisdorfer

31.

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

Mitch Hedberg

32.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

33.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Adelle Davis

34.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

35.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

P. J. O'Rourke

36.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

37.

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.

Kelly Barton

38.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne

39.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher

40.

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

41.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

42.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

Gary Taubes

44.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

45.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Mark Twain

46.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

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When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

Molly Wizenberg

48.

Man is what he eats.

Ludwig Feuerbach

49.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Adelle Davis

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Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham