Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Orwell, George

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

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

Barrymore, John

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

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

11.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

12.

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

13.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

14.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

16.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

17.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

19.

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

Socrates

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.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

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

Proverb, English

24.

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

Santayana, George

25.

Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

Hitopadesa

28.

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.

29.

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

Cato The Elder

30.

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

Saadi

31.

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

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

35.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

37.

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

Collier, William

38.

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

Vries, Peter De

39.

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

Miller, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

Beard, James

42.

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

43.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

44.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

47.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

49.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin