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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Lancaster, Burt

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

10.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Beard, James

12.

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

Hitopadesa

13.

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

Connolly, Cyril

14.

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

15.

Seven's a banquet nine a brawl.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

18.

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

Woolf, Virginia

19.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

23.

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

24.

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

Orwell, George

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Catalan

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

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

29.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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.

31.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

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

37.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

38.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

39.

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

40.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

41.

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''

42.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

43.

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

Charles II

44.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

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