Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Euripides

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Orwell, George

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

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

Cato The Elder

16.

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

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

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

19.

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

Miller, Henry

20.

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''

21.

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

Charles II

22.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

23.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Hitopadesa

27.

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

28.

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

Lancaster, Burt

29.

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

30.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

31.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

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

Woolf, Virginia

34.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

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

36.

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

Santayana, George

37.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

38.

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

39.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

40.

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.

41.

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

Proverb, Turkish

42.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

43.

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

44.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

45.

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

46.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

Hackett, Buddy

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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