Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Beard, James

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Charles II

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

Saadi

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

10.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

11.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

12.

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

Euripides

13.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Socrates

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, English

17.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

18.

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

20.

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

Cato The Elder

21.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

22.

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

Miller, Henry

23.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

26.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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

Santayana, George

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Orbach, Susie

33.

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

Orwell, George

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.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

36.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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.

38.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

39.

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

41.

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

43.

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

Lancaster, Burt

44.

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

45.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

46.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

47.

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''

48.

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

Hackett, Buddy

49.

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

50.

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

Woolf, Virginia