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 seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Barrymore, John

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

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

Maximus, Tyrius

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hubbard, Kin

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

10.

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.

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

12.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

13.

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

Socrates

14.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

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

16.

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

Charles II

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.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

19.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

20.

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

Santayana, George

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

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

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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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

Hitopadesa

28.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

29.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

31.

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

Hackett, Buddy

32.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

33.

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

Proverb, Catalan

34.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

37.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

38.

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

Cato The Elder

39.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

40.

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

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

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

Saadi

44.

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.

45.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

46.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

47.

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

Butler, Samuel

48.

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

49.

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

Woolf, Virginia

50.

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