Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Saadi

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lebowitz, Fran

10.

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.

11.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Santayana, George

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

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

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

17.

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

18.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

19.

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

Orbach, Susie

20.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

21.

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

Proverb, Catalan

22.

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

23.

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

Collier, William

24.

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

Morley, Christopher

25.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

26.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

27.

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

Cato The Elder

28.

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

Vries, Peter De

29.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

32.

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

Barrymore, John

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

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

Hackett, Buddy

35.

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

Socrates

36.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

37.

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

38.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

45.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

46.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

47.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

48.

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

Beard, James

49.

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

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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.