Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, Catalan

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

Orwell, George

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

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

14.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

15.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

16.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

17.

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

18.

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

Allen, Woody

19.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

21.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

22.

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

Bible

23.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

24.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

25.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

29.

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

30.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

31.

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.

32.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

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

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.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Hackett, Buddy

38.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

39.

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

Orbach, Susie

40.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

41.

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

Woolf, Virginia

42.

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

43.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

44.

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

45.

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

Saadi

46.

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

Euripides

47.

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

Lancaster, Burt

48.

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