Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Dangerfield, Rodney

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Vries, Peter De

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

15.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

16.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

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

Hitopadesa

18.

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.

19.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

20.

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

21.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

22.

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

Proverb, English

23.

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

24.

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

Barrymore, John

25.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

26.

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

27.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

28.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

31.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

32.

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

Hackett, Buddy

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

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

38.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

Allen, Woody

41.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

42.

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

Orbach, Susie

43.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Munro, Hector Hugh

44.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

45.

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

Lancaster, Burt

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Hubbard, Kin

49.

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

Cato The Elder

50.

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''