Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Hackett, Buddy

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

Orbach, Susie

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Woolf, Virginia

10.

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

Collier, William

11.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

16.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

17.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

18.

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

Hitopadesa

19.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

21.

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.

Burton

22.

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

Santayana, George

23.

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.

24.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

25.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

26.

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

Barrymore, John

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

29.

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

30.

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

Beard, James

31.

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.

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

Orwell, George

33.

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

Socrates

34.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

35.

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

Miller, Henry

36.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

37.

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

Vries, Peter De

38.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

Cato The Elder

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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

42.

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

Charles II

43.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

44.

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

Hubbard, Kin

45.

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

Butler, Samuel

46.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

47.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

48.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

49.

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

Euripides