Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Beard, James

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Saadi

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

Miller, Henry

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

Kurnitz, Harry

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Collier, William

12.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

13.

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

14.

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

15.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Santayana, George

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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''

20.

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

21.

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

22.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

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.

29.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

30.

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

Proverb, Catalan

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

35.

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

Proverb, Turkish

36.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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

Proverb, English

38.

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

39.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

40.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

41.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

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.

43.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

44.

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

Orbach, Susie

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Euripides

47.

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

Proverb, French

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Charles II