Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Beard, James

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Bible

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

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

10.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

11.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Turkish

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Orbach, Susie

18.

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

Collier, William

19.

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

20.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

Hackett, Buddy

23.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

24.

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

25.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

26.

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

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Morley, Christopher

29.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

30.

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

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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.

32.

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

33.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

34.

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

Cato The Elder

35.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

36.

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

37.

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

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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

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Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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.

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

48.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

50.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth