Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Barrymore, John

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Hubbard, Kin

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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

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

Orwell, George

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

12.

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

13.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

17.

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

Connolly, Cyril

18.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

19.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

22.

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

Charles II

23.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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.

27.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

28.

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

Santayana, 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.

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

Hitopadesa

31.

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

Beard, James

32.

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

33.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

38.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

39.

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.

40.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

41.

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

Miller, Henry

42.

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

43.

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

Morley, Christopher

44.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

45.

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

46.

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.