Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

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

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

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

12.

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

Santayana, George

13.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

14.

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

Proverb, English

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

17.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Catalan

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Turkish

22.

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

23.

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

Collier, William

24.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Schiaparelli, Elsa

25.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Saadi

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

31.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

32.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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

36.

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

Cato The Elder

37.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

39.

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

40.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

43.

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

Proverb, French

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

47.

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.

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

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