Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Euripides

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.

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

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

10.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

11.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

12.

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

Charles II

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

15.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

16.

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

17.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Woolf, Virginia

23.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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

Cato The Elder

26.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

29.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

30.

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

31.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

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

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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.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

37.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

38.

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

Beard, James

39.

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

Morley, Christopher

40.

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''

41.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

42.

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

Miller, Henry

43.

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

Saadi

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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.