Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Beard, James

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

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

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

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

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

10.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Cato The Elder

13.

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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Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.

Winter, Arthur

15.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

16.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

17.

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

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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.

19.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

23.

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

Santayana, George

24.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

25.

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

Miller, Henry

26.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

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

Orwell, George

31.

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

Allen, Woody

32.

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

Barrymore, John

33.

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

Vries, Peter De

34.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Socrates

36.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

38.

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

Charles II

39.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

40.

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

Saadi

41.

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

Connolly, Cyril

42.

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

Proverb, Catalan

43.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

44.

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

45.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

46.

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

Proverb, Turkish

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver