Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Lappe, Frances Moore

Best Quotes about Food and eating

1.

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

2.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

Proverb, French

3.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

4.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

5.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Orbach, Susie

9.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

13.

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

Hitopadesa

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Catalan

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Lancaster, Burt

18.

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

Charles II

19.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

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

Saadi

21.

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

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

24.

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

25.

Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Lunch is for wimps.

Stone, Oliver

30.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

31.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

33.

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

Cato The Elder

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Hackett, Buddy

38.

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

39.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

40.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

41.

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

42.

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

Barrymore, John

43.

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

44.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

45.

To eat is human, to digest divine.