Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

Lunch is for wimps.

- Stone, Oliver

Best Quotes about Food and eating

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Socrates

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

10.

To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

11.

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

12.

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

Connolly, Cyril

13.

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.

14.

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

Beard, James

15.

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

16.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

17.

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

Orwell, George

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Vries, Peter De

21.

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

22.

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

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Saadi

27.

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

28.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

29.

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

30.

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

Euripides

31.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

34.

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

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

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

Barrymore, John

39.

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

Proverb, English

40.

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

Collier, William

41.

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

Morley, Christopher

42.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Hackett, Buddy

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.

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

Miller, Henry

48.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

49.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

50.

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.