Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Connolly, Cyril

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

13.

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

Orbach, Susie

14.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

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

Hubbard, Kin

16.

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

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

18.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

20.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

21.

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''

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

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

24.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

25.

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

Barrymore, John

26.

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

Miller, Henry

27.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

28.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

29.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

34.

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

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

Santayana, George

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

39.

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

Collier, William

40.

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

Lancaster, Burt

41.

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

Hitopadesa

42.

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

Beard, James

43.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

47.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

48.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

49.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

50.

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