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

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Santayana, George

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Orbach, Susie

10.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

11.

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

12.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

13.

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

14.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

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.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

24.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

25.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

26.

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

Proverb, Catalan

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.

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

Orwell, George

29.

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

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

32.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

Socrates

35.

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

Charles II

36.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

Hitopadesa

38.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

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

Miller, Henry

40.

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

Lancaster, Burt

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

44.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

45.

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

Hackett, Buddy

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

47.

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

Beard, James

48.

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

Vries, Peter De

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, French