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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

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

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

Euripides

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

12.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

Miller, Henry

18.

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

Cato The Elder

19.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

20.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

21.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

22.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

23.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

24.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

25.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

26.

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

27.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Proverb, Catalan

31.

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

Woolf, Virginia

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Collier, William

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Beard, James

39.

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

40.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

42.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

46.

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

Vries, Peter De

47.

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

48.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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.

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