Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Euripides

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

Collier, William

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

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

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.

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

Bible

10.

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

Miller, Henry

11.

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

12.

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

Charles II

13.

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

14.

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

Orwell, George

15.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

16.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

21.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

23.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

24.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

25.

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

Allen, Woody

26.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

Proverb, Turkish

28.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

29.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

33.

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

Barrymore, John

34.

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

35.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Santayana, George

37.

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

Orbach, Susie

38.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

39.

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

Proverb, Catalan

40.

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

Hackett, Buddy

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

43.

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.

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

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

Socrates

46.

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

47.

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''

48.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

50.

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