Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Barrymore, John

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

Maximus, Tyrius

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

Santayana, George

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

Beard, James

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

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

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Charles II

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.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

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

Saadi

21.

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

Proverb, Catalan

22.

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

23.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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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

25.

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''

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Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

27.

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.

28.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

29.

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

Lancaster, Burt

30.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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

Collier, William

32.

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

33.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

35.

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

Cato The Elder

36.

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

Connolly, Cyril

37.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

38.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

39.

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

40.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

41.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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