Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

1.

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''

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

6.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

7.

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

8.

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

Euripides

9.

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

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

11.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

12.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

13.

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

Lancaster, Burt

14.

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

Cato The Elder

15.

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

Charles II

16.

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

Orwell, George

17.

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.

18.

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

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

Proverb, Turkish

20.

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

Barrymore, John

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

26.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

27.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

28.

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

Proverb, English

29.

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

Miller, Henry

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Orbach, Susie

33.

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

34.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

35.

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

36.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

37.

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

Proverb, Catalan

38.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

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

Socrates

40.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

41.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Santayana, George

46.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

47.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

48.

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

49.

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

Beard, James

50.

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