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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Socrates

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

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Hackett, Buddy

13.

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

Woolf, Virginia

14.

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

Saadi

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Cato The Elder

18.

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

Miller, Henry

19.

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

20.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

21.

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''

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

28.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

29.

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

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Hitopadesa

33.

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

Barrymore, John

34.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

Beard, James

37.

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

Lancaster, Burt

38.

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

Proverb, Catalan

39.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

40.

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

Orwell, George

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Turkish

45.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

46.

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.

47.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

48.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

49.

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

Bible

50.

He who eats alone chokes alone.