Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Twain, Mark

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Santayana, George

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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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 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

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

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.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

14.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

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

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A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

20.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

22.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

23.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Orbach, Susie

26.

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

Collier, William

27.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

31.

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

32.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Cato The Elder

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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

37.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

39.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Miller, Henry

44.

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

Proverb, Catalan

45.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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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

49.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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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