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

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

Twain, Mark

Steinem, Gloria

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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 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

12.

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''

13.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

14.

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

15.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

17.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

18.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

19.

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

Socrates

20.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

21.

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

22.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

27.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

29.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Byron, Lord

30.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

31.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

32.

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

Orbach, Susie

33.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

34.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

35.

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

36.

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

Charles II

37.

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

Orwell, George

38.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Hitopadesa

40.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, English

44.

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

Proverb, Catalan

45.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

Cato The Elder

48.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

49.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

50.

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