Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Bible

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

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

Charles II

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''

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

Beard, James

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

Hubbard, Kin

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Kurnitz, Harry

10.

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

11.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

12.

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

13.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

15.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

20.

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.

21.

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

Orwell, George

22.

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

Cato The Elder

23.

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

24.

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

Barrymore, John

25.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

26.

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

Collier, William

27.

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

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

Miller, Henry

30.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

31.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

33.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

38.

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

Orbach, Susie

39.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Catalan

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

47.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

48.

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

49.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

50.

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