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

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

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.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Orwell, George

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

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

Cato The Elder

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

10.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

11.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

12.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

13.

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''

14.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

Beard, James

23.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

24.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

27.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

Charles II

30.

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

31.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Woolf, Virginia

35.

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

Orbach, Susie

36.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Connolly, Cyril

38.

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

Proverb, Catalan

39.

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

Hackett, Buddy

40.

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

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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

42.

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

Barrymore, John

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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

44.

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

Collier, William

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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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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

48.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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