Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Beard, James

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Beard, James

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Saadi

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

Lancaster, Burt

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

Bible

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

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

Hackett, Buddy

13.

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

14.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

20.

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

Barrymore, John

21.

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

Hitopadesa

22.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

23.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

24.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

28.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

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

Santayana, George

31.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

34.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

35.

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

Proverb, Turkish

36.

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

37.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

38.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

Proverb, New England

40.

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

Connolly, Cyril

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

42.

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

Collier, William

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.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

47.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

48.

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

49.

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Orbach, Susie