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

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

Orwell, George

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Beard, James

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

11.

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

Euripides

12.

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

15.

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''

16.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

18.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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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

24.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

25.

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

Lancaster, Burt

26.

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

Orbach, Susie

27.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Miller, Henry

29.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

30.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Hobbes, Thomas

31.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

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

Proverb, English

37.

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

Charles II

38.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.

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

Woolf, Virginia

41.

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

Butler, Samuel

42.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

43.

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

Hackett, Buddy

44.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.

Kurnitz, Harry

45.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Barrymore, John

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

48.

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.

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Schiaparelli, Elsa