Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

Berra, Yogi

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

Allen, Woody

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

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

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.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

10.

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.

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Charles II

13.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

14.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

15.

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

Lancaster, Burt

16.

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

Barrymore, John

17.

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

18.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

Hitopadesa

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.

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

Beard, James

23.

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

Collier, William

24.

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

Santayana, George

25.

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

Miller, Henry

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

28.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

29.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

30.

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Proverb, Turkish

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Catalan

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

Woolf, Virginia

35.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

36.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.