Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Mcclinton, Delbert

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Hackett, Buddy

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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

Orwell, George

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

10.

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

11.

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

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

13.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

15.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

16.

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

Hitopadesa

17.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

18.

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

Woolf, Virginia

19.

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

Santayana, George

20.

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

21.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

22.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

24.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

25.

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

Proverb, English

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Lancaster, Burt

28.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

29.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

Hubbard, Kin

32.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

33.

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

Vries, Peter De

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Collier, William

38.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

42.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

43.

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

Morley, Christopher

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

47.

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

Saadi

48.

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

49.

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

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

Euripides