Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, English

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

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''

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

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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

Beard, James

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

10.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

14.

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

Vries, Peter De

15.

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

Cato The Elder

16.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

17.

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

Collier, William

18.

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

Hackett, Buddy

19.

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

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Barrymore, John

24.

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

Miller, Henry

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 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

27.

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

Woolf, Virginia

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Euripides

33.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

34.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

35.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

36.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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.

40.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

41.

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

Socrates

42.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Morley, Christopher

47.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

48.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

49.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.