Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, Catalan

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Saadi

12.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

13.

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.

14.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

Beard, James

19.

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

Hackett, Buddy

20.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

21.

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

Allen, Woody

22.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

23.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

24.

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

Barrymore, John

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

29.

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

30.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

31.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

33.

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

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

37.

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

Bible

38.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

39.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

40.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

45.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Lancaster, Burt

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.

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

49.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

50.

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

Santayana, George