Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Hunger is a good cook.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

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

Orbach, Susie

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

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

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

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

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

Barrymore, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

11.

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

Proverb, Catalan

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

15.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

16.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

20.

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

Charles II

21.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

22.

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

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

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.

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

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

Santayana, George

29.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Morley, Christopher

33.

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

Cato The Elder

34.

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

Euripides

35.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

36.

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

Saadi

37.

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

Butler, Samuel

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Bible

41.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

42.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

43.

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

44.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

45.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

46.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

48.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

49.

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''

50.

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