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

1.

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

Cato The Elder

2.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

3.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

4.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

5.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

6.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

12.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

13.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

14.

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

15.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

17.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

18.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

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

24.

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

Hitopadesa

25.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

26.

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

27.

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

Lancaster, Burt

28.

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

29.

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

Morley, Christopher

30.

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

Collier, William

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Socrates

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Santayana, George

40.

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

Woolf, Virginia

41.

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

Proverb, Catalan

42.

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

Barrymore, John

43.

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

Orwell, George

44.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Saadi

46.

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

Hubbard, Kin

47.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

48.

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

Beard, James

49.

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

50.

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

Twain, Mark