Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

- 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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Euripides

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

Orbach, Susie

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

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.

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

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

10.

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

Santayana, George

11.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

12.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

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

14.

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

Hackett, Buddy

15.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

16.

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.

17.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

20.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

22.

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

Miller, Henry

23.

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

Woolf, Virginia

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

28.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

29.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

30.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

41.

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

Vries, Peter De

42.

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

Collier, William

43.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

44.

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

Hitopadesa

45.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Lancaster, Burt

48.

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

Hubbard, Kin

49.

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

Proverb, English

50.

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