Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

Orbach, Susie

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

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

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.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Charles II

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

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

Lancaster, Burt

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

Santayana, George

10.

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

Barrymore, John

11.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

13.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

14.

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

Allen, Woody

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

18.

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

19.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

20.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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.

22.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

23.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

24.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

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

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

Hackett, Buddy

30.

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

31.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

32.

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''

33.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

34.

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

35.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Woolf, Virginia

38.

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

Proverb, French

39.

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

40.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

44.

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

Saadi

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

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

Vries, Peter De

47.

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Beard, James