Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

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

10.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

Charles II

13.

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

Woolf, Virginia

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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.

16.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

24.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

25.

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

Socrates

26.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

27.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

28.

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

Miller, Henry

29.

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

Collier, William

30.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

31.

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

Orwell, George

32.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

33.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

34.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

35.

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

Saadi

36.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

37.

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.

38.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

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''

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

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

Beard, James

42.

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

Connolly, Cyril

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

45.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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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

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

Kurnitz, Harry

48.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

49.

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

50.

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.