Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Food and eating

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

5.

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

6.

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

Miller, Henry

7.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Woolf, Virginia

9.

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

10.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

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

Collier, William

15.

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

Barrymore, John

16.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

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

Proverb, Turkish

19.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

20.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

21.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

22.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

23.

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

24.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

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

27.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

28.

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

29.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

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

Charles II

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

Saadi

34.

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

Vries, Peter De

35.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Socrates

39.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

40.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

41.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Hitopadesa

47.

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

Allen, Woody

48.

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