Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Collier, William

10.

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

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

Orbach, Susie

13.

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

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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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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.

16.

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

Proverb, Turkish

17.

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

18.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

19.

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

20.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

21.

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

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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

23.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

27.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

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

Morley, Christopher

30.

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

Bible

31.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

34.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

35.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

36.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

37.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

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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

39.

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

Cato The Elder

40.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

43.

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

Miller, Henry

44.

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

45.

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

Euripides

46.

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

Santayana, George

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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.

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

Burton