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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Saadi

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Lancaster, Burt

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

Cato The Elder

12.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

13.

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

Barrymore, John

14.

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

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

20.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

Hackett, Buddy

22.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

23.

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

Proverb, English

24.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

25.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

26.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

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

Santayana, George

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

Orbach, Susie

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

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

Morley, Christopher

33.

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

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

36.

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

Woolf, Virginia

37.

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

38.

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

Collier, William

39.

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

41.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

42.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

43.

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.

44.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

45.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Hitopadesa

49.

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

50.

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