Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Saadi

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

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

Orwell, George

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

10.

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

Santayana, George

11.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

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

Socrates

14.

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

15.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

17.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

18.

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

19.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

22.

Ferber, Edna

23.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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

25.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

26.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

27.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

30.

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

Beard, James

31.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

32.

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

33.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Barrymore, John

38.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

39.

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

Miller, Henry

40.

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

Cato The Elder

41.

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

42.

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

Orbach, Susie

43.

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

Proverb, Catalan

44.

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

45.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Turkish

48.

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