Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Orwell, George

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Collier, William

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Santayana, George

10.

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

Charles II

11.

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

Allen, Woody

12.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

14.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

15.

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

16.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

17.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Cato The Elder

18.

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

Morley, Christopher

19.

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

20.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Euripides

25.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

26.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Miller, Henry

29.

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

Saadi

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

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

Hackett, Buddy

35.

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

Woolf, Virginia

36.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

37.

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

Hubbard, Kin

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

42.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

43.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

44.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

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''

46.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

47.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

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

Orbach, Susie

49.

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