Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Food and eating

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

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

Socrates

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

Collier, William

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

Charles II

Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Connolly, Cyril

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Kurnitz, Harry

12.

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

13.

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

Santayana, George

14.

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

15.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Mcclinton, Delbert

22.

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

Saadi

23.

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

24.

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

Allen, Woody

25.

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

26.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

Barrymore, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

32.

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

Maximus, Tyrius

33.

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

36.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

37.

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

Orbach, Susie

38.

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.

39.

Hunger is a good cook.

Proverb

40.

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

Woolf, Virginia

41.

The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

Proverb

42.

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

Lappe, Frances Moore

43.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

Never eat anything you can't lift.

Piggy, Miss

45.

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.

46.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

48.

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

49.

Lunch is for wimps.