Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Charles II

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Bible

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

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

Santayana, George

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

Orbach, Susie

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Collier, William

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

Twain, Mark

10.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

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

Socrates

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

20.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

21.

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

Lancaster, Burt

22.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

23.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

24.

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

Miller, Henry

25.

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

26.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

27.

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

28.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

29.

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

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

31.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

34.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

37.

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

38.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

39.

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

Cato The Elder

40.

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

41.

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

Saadi

42.

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

Proverb, Turkish

43.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

44.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

45.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Catalan

48.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

49.

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

50.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb