Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Cato The Elder

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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Santayana, George

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

12.

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

Lancaster, Burt

13.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

14.

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

Proverb, Catalan

15.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

Proverb, English

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

20.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Miller, Henry

25.

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

Beard, James

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Turkish

28.

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

Orbach, Susie

29.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

Proverb, New England

33.

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

Euripides

34.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Morley, Christopher

36.

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

Charles II

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

Socrates

43.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

44.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

45.

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''

46.

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

47.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Saadi

49.

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

Woolf, Virginia

50.

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