Motivational Quotes

Food

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Food

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.

John Keats

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

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

Gary Taubes

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

Mark Twain

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

Eike von Repkow

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

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

Mark Twain

A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.

Raelle Tucker

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

Henry Bromel

10.

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

Jules Renard

11.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Miss Piggy

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

Sean Stewart

14.

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

M. F. K. Fisher

15.

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

16.

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

Kelly Barton

17.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

18.

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

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said,'I'd like some fries.'The girl at the counter said,'Would you like some fries with that?'

Jay Leno

22.

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

P. J. O'Rourke

23.

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

24.

Good food ends with good talk.

Geoffrey Neighor

25.

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

Lucretius

26.

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Pearl Buck

30.

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

31.

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

Kirby Larson

32.

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

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates

35.

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

Ronald Reagan

36.

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

Sefer Hasidim

37.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

38.

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

39.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

40.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Man is what he eats.

Ludwig Feuerbach

42.

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

43.

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

Michel de Montaigne

44.

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

Totie Fields

45.

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

Orson Welles

46.

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

Cyra McFadden

47.

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

48.

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

49.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

50.

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

Adelle Davis