Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Hunger is a good cook.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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 good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Miller, Henry

10.

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

11.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

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.

15.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Catalan

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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

Charles II

26.

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

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

Saadi

32.

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

Proverb, English

33.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Collier, William

39.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

41.

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

Woolf, Virginia

42.

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

43.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

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

46.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

47.

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

Proverb, Turkish

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Maximus, Tyrius