Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Orbach, Susie

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Hubbard, Kin

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

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

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

Beard, James

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Turkish

12.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

14.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

17.

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

18.

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

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

Bible

20.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

21.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

22.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

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

27.

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

Miller, Henry

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

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

30.

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

31.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

32.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Orwell, George

40.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Proverb, Hebrew

41.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

42.

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

Butler, Samuel

43.

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

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.

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

Charles II

47.

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